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How should one live? : comparing ethics in ancient China and Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by R.A.H. King and Dennis Schilling.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Comparative.
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Ethics--China.
- Ethics.
- Ethics--Greece.
- Ethics--Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Methods
- pt. 2. Ethical history
- pt. 3. China
- pt. 4. Greece and Rome
- pt. 5. Comparisons.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9786613400208
- 9781283400206
- 1283400200
- 9783110252897
- 3110252899
- OCLC:
- 748242233
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