
How Should One Live?
Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
De Gruyter (Publisher)
Published on 27. July 2011
Book
Mixed media product
VIII, 343 pages
978-3-11-219168-2 (ISBN)
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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; 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-11-219168-2 (9783112191682)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.