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The good life and conceptions of life in early China and Graeco-Roman antiquity /
Chinese and Graeco-Roman ethics influence modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how to compare them. Clustered around the concepts of life and the good life, this volume offers a comparative analysis of the core concepts of both traditions: human nature, virtue, happiness, pleasure, the concept of mi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Chinese-western discourse ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- I. Methods
- Introduction
- Models for living in ancient Greece and China
- On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation
- II. China
- The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China
- The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China
- Cosmic Life and Human Life in the "Book of Changes"
- Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China
- Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China
- Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming
- III. Greece and Rome
- Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial?
- Taking Thoughts about Life seriously
- Filial Piety in Plato
- The Good Life for Plato's Tripartite Soul
- Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence: On the rhetorical anthropology of "the measure of all things"
- Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus
- IV. Comparisons
- Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life
- Mencius and the Stoics
- tui and oikeiôsis
- The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece
- Index locorum
- General index of subjects.