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

Published by De Gruyter 2011

How Should One Live?

Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity

Edited by: Richard A.H. King and Dennis Schilling

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252897

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About this book

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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R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Part I. Methods
1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics R.A.H. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 Comparative ethics: Some methodological considerations G.E.R. Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Part II. Ethical theory
3 Two kinds of moral relativism Gerhard Ernst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Part III. China
4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics Alan K. L. Chan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon Or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics Paul R. Goldin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6 Coming to terms with dé 􁖋: The deconstruction of ‘virtue’ and an exercise in scientifi c morality Robert H. Gassmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: Light shed and shadows cast Lee H. Yearley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Part IV. Greece and Rome
8 Parrhesy and irony Plato’s Socrates and the Epicurean tradition Michael Erler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato’s Laches Jörg Hardy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
10 Aristotle Ethics without morality? Johannes Hübner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship Jan Szaif Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Part V. Comparisons
12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of crosscultural universals and cultural relativism G.E.R. Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought David B. Wong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
14 The ethics of prediction Lisa Raphals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi May Sim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
General index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
Index locorum – Chinese authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
Index locorum – Greek and Roman authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 343
Keywords: Ancient Chinese Philosophy; Ethics; Greek Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Virtue

eBook

Published: July 27, 2011
ISBN: 9783110252897

Hardcover

Published: July 18, 2011
ISBN: 9783110252873