How should one live?: comparing ethics in ancient China and Greco-Roman antiquity
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Language:English
Published: Berlin de Gruyter c2011
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Item Description:"The papers published here were among those discussed in the Münchner Kompetenzzentrum Ethik, Philosophy Department, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung Munich on October 1st-3rd, 2007"--Acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Pt. 1. Methods -- pt. 2. Ethical history -- pt. 3. China -- pt. 4. Greece and Rome -- pt. 5. Comparisons
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 343 p.)
ISBN:1283400200
3110252899
9781283400206
9783110252897

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