Screen LibraryHow should one live? : comparing ethics in ancient china and greco-roman antiquity /
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; this volume is a ma...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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; this volume is a major contribution to the field. Fundamental questions about the nature of comparing ethics are treated in two introductory chapters, and core issues in each of the traditions are addressed: harmony, virtue, friendship, knowledge, the relation of ethics to morality, relativism, emotions, being and unity, simplicity and complexity, and prediction. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (351pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110252897（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | BJ69 |
| CLC: | B82 |
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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 d : 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 |