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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110252873
  • 9783110252897
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.931 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ69 .H69 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

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