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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Richar A H King (Editor), Richard A H King (Editor), Richard King (Editor), Richard A. H. King (Editor), Schilling (Editor), Schilling (Editor), Dennis Schilling (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9783110252873
• ISBN: 978-3-11-025287-3
• No. of pages: 343
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 24 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 727 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Eastern philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions