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

By Dennis Schilling and R.A.H. King

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110252872
• ISBN13: 9783110252873
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary