How Should One Live?
Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2011
VIII, 343 pages
978-3-11-025289-7 (ISBN)
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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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How Should One Live?
Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
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R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.
Content
1 - Acknowledgements [Seite 6]
2 - Contents [Seite 8]
3 - Part I Methods [Seite 10]
3.1 - 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics [Seite 12]
3.2 - 2 Comparative ethics: some methodological considerations [Seite 27]
4 - Part II Ethical theory [Seite 32]
4.1 - 3 Two kinds of moral relativism [Seite 34]
5 - Part III China [Seite 44]
5.1 - 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics [Seite 46]
5.2 - 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon - or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics [Seite 72]
5.3 - 6 Coming to terms with dé : the deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientific morality [Seite 101]
5.4 - 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: light shed and shadows cast [Seite 135]
6 - Part IV Greece and Rome [Seite 162]
6.1 - 8 Parrhesy and irony: Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition [Seite 164]
6.2 - 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches [Seite 179]
6.3 - 10 Aristotle: ethics without morality? [Seite 200]
6.4 - 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship [Seite 217]
7 - Part V Comparisons [Seite 248]
7.1 - 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism [Seite 250]
7.2 - 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought [Seite 268]
7.3 - 14 The ethics of prediction [Seite 287]
7.4 - 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi [Seite 313]
8 - General index [Seite 332]
9 - Index of names [Seite 343]
10 - Index locorum - Chinese authors [Seite 345]
11 - Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors [Seite 348]
2 - Contents [Seite 8]
3 - Part I Methods [Seite 10]
3.1 - 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics [Seite 12]
3.2 - 2 Comparative ethics: some methodological considerations [Seite 27]
4 - Part II Ethical theory [Seite 32]
4.1 - 3 Two kinds of moral relativism [Seite 34]
5 - Part III China [Seite 44]
5.1 - 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics [Seite 46]
5.2 - 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon - or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics [Seite 72]
5.3 - 6 Coming to terms with dé : the deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientific morality [Seite 101]
5.4 - 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: light shed and shadows cast [Seite 135]
6 - Part IV Greece and Rome [Seite 162]
6.1 - 8 Parrhesy and irony: Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition [Seite 164]
6.2 - 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches [Seite 179]
6.3 - 10 Aristotle: ethics without morality? [Seite 200]
6.4 - 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship [Seite 217]
7 - Part V Comparisons [Seite 248]
7.1 - 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism [Seite 250]
7.2 - 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought [Seite 268]
7.3 - 14 The ethics of prediction [Seite 287]
7.4 - 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi [Seite 313]
8 - General index [Seite 332]
9 - Index of names [Seite 343]
10 - Index locorum - Chinese authors [Seite 345]
11 - Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors [Seite 348]
