UID:
edocfu_9958354029702883
Format:
1 online resource (410p.)
ISBN:
9783110310115
Series Statement:
Chinese-Western Discourse ; 3
Content:
Chinese and Graeco-Roman ethics influence modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how to compare them. Clustered around the concepts of life and the good life, this volume offers a comparative analysis of the core concepts of both traditions: human nature, virtue, happiness, pleasure, the concept of mind, knowledge, filial piety and deliberation. It is thus an essential contribution to comparative ethics as regards both content and method.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Table of Contents --
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I. Methods --
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Introduction --
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Models for living in ancient Greece and China --
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On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation --
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II. China --
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The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China --
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The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China --
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Cosmic Life and Human Life in the “Book of Changes” --
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Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China --
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Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China --
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Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming --
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III. Greece and Rome --
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Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial? --
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Taking Thoughts about Life seriously --
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Filial Piety in Plato --
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The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul --
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Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence: On the rhetorical anthropology of “the measure of all things” --
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Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus --
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IV. Comparisons --
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Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life --
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Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsis --
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The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece --
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Index locorum --
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General index of subjects
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-030992-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110310115
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310115
