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1 online resource (351p.)
ISBN:
9783110252897
Content:
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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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Part I. Methods --
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1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics --
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2 Comparative ethics: Some methodological considerations --
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Part II. Ethical theory --
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3 Two kinds of moral relativism --
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Part III. China --
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4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics --
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5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon Or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics --
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6 Coming to terms with dé 德: The deconstruction of ‘virtue’ and an exercise in scientifi c morality --
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7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: Light shed and shadows cast --
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Part IV. Greece and Rome --
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8 Parrhesy and irony Plato’s Socrates and the Epicurean tradition --
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9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato’s Laches --
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10 Aristotle Ethics without morality? --
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11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship --
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Part V. Comparisons --
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12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of crosscultural universals and cultural relativism --
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13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought --
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14 The ethics of prediction --
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15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi --
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General index --
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Index of names --
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Index locorum – Chinese authors --
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Index locorum – Greek and Roman authors
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-025287-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110252897
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110252897
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