How Should One Live? : : Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity / / Richard A.H. King, Dennis Schilling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• TeilnehmendeR: King, Richard A.H.,; Schilling, Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Part I. Methods --; 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics /; 2 Comparative ethics: Some methodological considerations /; Part II. Ethical theory --; 3 Two kinds of moral relativism /; Part III. China --; 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics /; 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon Or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics /; 6 Coming to terms with dé 􁖋: The deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientifi c morality /; 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: Light shed and shadows cast /; Part IV. Greece and Rome --; 8 Parrhesy and irony Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition /; 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches /; 10 Aristotle Ethics without morality? /; 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship /; Part V. Comparisons --; 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of crosscultural universals and cultural relativism /; 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought /; 14 The ethics of prediction /; 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi /; General index --; Index of names --; Index locorum - Chinese authors --; Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110252897; 9783110649772; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110261189; 9783110261233; 9783110261257
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110252897
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Richard A.H. King, Dennis Schilling.

Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics present highly articulate views on how one should live; both of these traditions remain influential in modern philosophy. The question arises how these traditions can be compared with one another. Comparative ethics is a relatively young discipline, and this volume is a major contribution to the field. Fundamental questions about the nature of comparing ethics are treated in two introductory chapters, followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions : harmony, virtue, friendship, knowledge, the relation of ethics to morality, relativism. The volume closes with a number of comparative studies on emotions, being and unity, simplicity and complexity, and prediction.