How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity

How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity

by RichardKing (Editor), Dennis Schilling (Editor)

Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Published: 01 Mar 2011

ISBN 10: 3110252872
ISBN 13: 9783110252873

Author Bio
R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen, Germany.