How should one live? : comparing ethics in ancient China and Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by R.A.H. King and Dennis Schilling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, R. A. H.

Schilling, Dennis R.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Comparative.

Ethics, Ancient.

Ethics--China.

Ethics.

China.

Ethics--Greece.

Greece.

Ethics--Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

viii, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]

Summary:

Selected from an October 2007 symposium in Munich, 15 papers cover research methods, ethical theory, China, Greece and Rome, and comparisons. Contributors identified only by name consider such topics as the methodology of comparative ethics, two kinds of moral relativism, harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness in early Confucian ethics, light shed and shadows cast on virtue ethics in ancient China, Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition, Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship, the Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism, and complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics / R.A.H. King

Comparative ethics : some methodological considerations / G.E.R. Lloyd

Two kinds of moral relativism / Gerhard Ernst

Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics / Alan K.L. Chan

Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon, or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics / Paul R. Goldin

Coming to terms with dé 德 : the deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientific morality / Robert H. Gassmann

Virtue ethics in ancient China : light shed and shadows cast / Lee H. Yearley

Parrhesy and irony : Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition / Michael Erler

The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches / Jörg Hardy

Aristotle : ethics without morality? / Johannes Hübner

Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship / Jan Szaif

The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism / G.E.R. Lloyd

Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought / David B. Wong

The ethics of prediction / Lisa Raphals

Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi / Mary Sim.

Notes:

"The papers published here were among those discussed in the Münchner Kompetenzzentrum Ethik, Philosophy Department, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung Munich on October 1st-3rd, 2007"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783110252873

3110252872

9783110252897

3110252899

OCLC:

690904622

Publisher Number:

99964055119