How Should One Live? : : Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity / / 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 i...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |