King / Schilling How Should One Live?

Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025289-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 351 Seiten, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 155 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Richard A.H.

Schilling, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Contents;8
3;Part I Methods;10
3.1;1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics;12
3.2;2 Comparative ethics: some methodological considerations;27
4;Part II Ethical theory;32
4.1;3 Two kinds of moral relativism;34
5;Part III China;44
5.1;4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics;46
5.2;5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon – or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics;72
5.3;6 Coming to terms with dé : the deconstruction of ‘virtue’ and an exercise in scientific morality;101
5.4;7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: light shed and shadows cast;135
6;Part IV Greece and Rome;162
6.1;8 Parrhesy and irony: Plato’s Socrates and the Epicurean tradition;164
6.2;9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato’s Laches;179
6.3;10 Aristotle: ethics without morality?;200
6.4;11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship;217
7;Part V Comparisons;248
7.1;12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of cross-cultural universals and cultural relativism;250
7.2;13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought;268
7.3;14 The ethics of prediction;287
7.4;15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi;313
8;General index;332
9;Index of names;343
10;Index locorum - Chinese authors;345
11;Index locorum - Greek and Roman authors;348

Über Autor(innen)

R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK; Dennis Schilling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany.