How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity
Richard King, "How Should One Live?: Comparing Ethics in Ancient China and Greco-Roman Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 3110252872 | 2011 | 400 pages | PDF | 1456 KB
English | ISBN: 3110252872 | 2011 | 400 pages | PDF | 1456 KB
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.