How Should One Live? : : Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity /

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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King, Richard A.H.,
Schilling, Dennis,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (351 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Part I. Methods
  • 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics / King, R.A.H.
  • 2 Comparative ethics: Some methodological considerations / Lloyd, G.E.R.
  • Part II. Ethical theory
  • 3 Two kinds of moral relativism / Ernst, Gerhard
  • Part III. China
  • 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics / Chan, Alan K. L.
  • 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon Or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics / Goldin, Paul R.
  • 6 Coming to terms with dé 􁖋: The deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientifi c morality / Gassmann, Robert H.
  • 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: Light shed and shadows cast / Yearley, Lee H.
  • Part IV. Greece and Rome
  • 8 Parrhesy and irony Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition / Erler, Michael
  • 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches / Hardy, Jörg
  • 10 Aristotle Ethics without morality? / Hübner, Johannes
  • 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship / Szaif, Jan
  • Part V. Comparisons
  • 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of crosscultural universals and cultural relativism / Lloyd, G.E.R.
  • 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought / Wong, David B.
  • 14 The ethics of prediction / Raphals, Lisa
  • 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi / Sim, May
  • General index
  • Index of names
  • Index locorum - Chinese authors
  • Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors

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