How Should One Live?

Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025287-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 343 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

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, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schilling, Dennis

King, Richard A.H.

King, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Schilling, Dennis
Dennis Schilling, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

King, Richard
R.A.H. King, Glasgow University, UK

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