The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Published by De Gruyter 2015

The Good Life and Conceptions of Life in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Edited by: R.A.H. King

Volume 3 in the series Chinese-Western Discourse

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310115

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About this book

Chinese and Greek ethics remain influential in modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how they can be compared to one another. This volume, following its predecssor 'How should one live?' (DeGruyter 2011), is a contribution to comparative ethics, loosely centered on the concepts of life and the good life. Methods of comparing ethics are treated in three introductory chapters (R.A.H.King, Ralph Weber, G.E.R. Lloyd), followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions: human nature (David Wong, Guo Yi), ghosts (Paul Goldin), happiness (Christoph Harbsmeier), pleasure (Michael Nylan), qi (Elisabeth Hsu & Zhang Ruqing), cosmic life and individual life (Dennis Schilling), the concept of mind (William Charlton), knowledge and happiness (Jörg Hardy), filial piety (Richard Stalley), the soul (Hua-kuei Ho), and deliberation (Thomas Buchheim). The volume closes with three essays in comparison - Mencius and the Stoics (R.A.H. King), equanimity (Lee Yearley), autonomy and the good life (Lisa Raphals). An index locorum each for Chinese and Greco-Roman authors, and a general index complete the volume.

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R.A.H. King, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
I. Methods
Introduction R.A.H. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Models for living in ancient Greece and China G.E.R. Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation Ralph Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
II. China
The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China Paul R. Goldin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China Guo Yi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Cosmic Life and Human Life in the “Book of Changes” Dennis Schilling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China Christoph Harbsmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China Elisabeth Hsu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming Michael Nylan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
III. Greece and Rome
Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial? William Charlton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Taking Thoughts about Life seriously Jörg Hardy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Filial Piety in Plato Richard Stalley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul Hua-kuei Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence On the rhetorical anthropology of “the measure of all things” Thomas Buchheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus Michael Erler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
IV. Comparisons
Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life Lisa Raphals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsis R.A.H. King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece Lee H. Yearley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
General index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 402
Keywords: Good life; antiquity; China

eBook

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110310115

Hardcover

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110309928