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

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Richar A H King (Herausgeber), Richard A H King (Herausgeber), Richard King (Herausgeber), Richard A. H. King (Herausgeber), Schilling (Herausgeber), Schilling (Herausgeber), Dennis Schilling (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9783110252873
• ISBN: 978-3-11-025287-3
• Seiten: 343
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 24 mm x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 727 g
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Östliche Philosophie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Weitere Weltreligionen