
How Should One Live?
Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2011
Book
Hardback
VIII, 343 pages
978-3-11-025287-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-025287-3 (9783110252873)
Schweitzer Classification
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Richard A.H. King | Dennis Schilling
How Should One Live?
Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
E-Book
07/2011
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€154.95
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Persons
R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.