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1 online resource (352 pages)
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9783110252897
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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; 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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Intro -- Part I Methods -- 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics -- 2 Comparative ethics: some methodological considerations -- Part II Ethical theory -- 3 Two kinds of moral relativism -- Part III China -- 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics -- 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon - or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics -- 6 Coming to terms with dé : the deconstruction of 'virtue' and an exercise in scientifi c morality -- 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: light shed and shadows cast -- Part IV Greece and Rome -- 8 Parrhesy and irony: Plato's Socrates and the Epicurean tradition -- 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato's Laches -- 10 Aristotle: ethics without morality? -- 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship -- Part V Comparisons -- 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism -- 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought -- 14 The ethics of prediction -- 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi -- General index -- Index of names -- Index locorum - Chinese authors -- Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors.
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ISBN 9783110252873
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Englisch
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Philosophie
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Konferenzschrift
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