UID:
almahu_9949140889002882
Format:
1 online resource (272 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350104358
Content:
"This collection illustrates the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including ancient Chinese ethics, showing how skill or techne has been a touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Covering Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic 's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne and the Stoics' 'art of life'. Divided into four sections on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Chinese ethics, it brings together world-leading philosophers working across this broad topic. Yet it is not limited to traditional figures and traditions, featuring essays on the importance of skill in lesser-known philosophers, such as Carneades and Antipater, and texts, such as the Zhuangzi. In doing so, it illustrates how skill, expertise and 'know how' are important in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of action and cognitive science. This collection of specially-commissioned chapters is the first to foreground skill as central to Ancient and Chinese ethics specifically making it an essential for anyone interested in the value of cross-cultural philosophy today."--
Note:
Part I. Skill in Plato's ethics. 1. Socrates: Apprentice at politics / Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College) ; 2. Can virtue be learned?: reconciling two models of virtue Instruction in the protagoras / Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver) ; 3. Protagoras' theory of punishment / Brooks Sommerville (Haverford College) ; 4. The craft of justice in Plato's Gorgias / Laurence Bloom (Rhodes University) ; 5. [Chapter on ethics and skill in the Republic and/or Statesman] -- Part II: Skill in Aristotle's Ethics. 6. What's behind Aristotle's account of skills in the ethics / Carlotta Pavese (Duke University); Simona Aimar (University College London) ; 7. Steering against the bad: desire, practical reason, and ordinary virtuous action / Jennifer Rothschild (University of Florida) ; 8. Practical wisdom and coercive technai / Noell Birondo (Wichita State University) ; 9. Virtue cultivation and the skill of emotion regulation / Paul Carron (Baylor University) -- Part III: Skill in stoic ethics. 10. TBC ; 11. Skilful acts: virtue and skill in stoic ethics / Tue Søvsø (University of Copenhagen) Skill in Ancient Chinese Ethics -- Part IV: Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi. 12. A path with no end: skill and Dao in Mozi and Zhuangzi /Chris Fraser (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) ; 13. Skilfulness and uselessness in the Zhuangzi / Wai Wai Chiu (Lingnan University, China ; 14. Dao and agency: what do the Zhuangzi's skill stories tell us about life? / Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales, Australia) -- Section VI. Comparative perspective on skill in ethics. 15. Can one become wise by learning to catch cicadas? Analogies between crafts and wisdom in Daoism and stoicism / David Machek (Univerisity of Bern, Switzerland) ; 16. Gendered skill: Chinese and Greek skill-knowledge analogies from archery and weaving / Lisa Raphals (University of California, Riverside, USA) ; 17. The skillful wanderer on th4e risks and rewards of travel in Plato and Zhuangzi / Rohan Sikri (University of Georgia, USA).
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350104327
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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DOI:
10.5040/9781350104358
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