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; 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

Art · China · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Friendship · Harmony (color) · Morality · Political science · Relation (database) · Relativism · Social science · Sociology · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification · Ancient Ethics · Comparative Ethics · Ethics · Ethics, ancient · Greece · Rome