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How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity

By Richard King

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2011
ISBN
3110252872, 9783110252873
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3165381 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
400\352
Time added
2013-11-01 09:19:13

Description

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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