Jiyuan Yu

The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle

Mirrors of Virtue

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Produktbeschreibung

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956475
• ISBN-10: 0415956471
• Artikelnr.: 22516192

Autorenporträt

Jiyuan Yu is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author of The Structure of being in Aristotle's Metaphysics, co-author (with Nick Bunnin) of The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy, and co-editor (with Jorge Gracia) of Rationality and Happiness and Uses and Abuses of the Classics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Introduction
Two Revivals The Meaning of Comparison The Possibility of Comparison
The Nature of Ethical Argument The Scope of Comparison The Structure
of the Book
Chapter I Eudaimonia, Dao, and Virtue
Eudaimonia and Dao Virtue: Arete and De De and Ren The Beginning of
Ethics Doing Ethics and Being Pious The Paths of Ethics
Chapter II Humanity: Xing and Ergon
Human Nature and Humanity Human Function and Human Good Nature
Humanity as the Foundation of Ethics Justifying the Existence of
Humanity Actualization of Humanity From Humanity to Virtue
Chapter III Virtue, Mean and Disposition 1. The Mean: Inner and Outer 2.
Hitting the Mean 3. The Inner Mean 4. Disposition and Second Nature 5. The
Components of the Mean Disposition Chapter IV Habituation and Ritualization
1. Social Values: li and ethos 2. Political Animal and the Relational Self
3. Nature and Cultivation 4. Family and Virtue 5. Politics and Virtue 6.
Virtue and the Liberal Values Chapter V Emotion and Reason 1. Emotion and
Virtue 2. Moral Wisdom: phronesis and yi 3. Moral Wisdom and Traditional
Value 4. Moral Wisdom and Emotion 5. Reasoning for Action and Moral
Particularism 6. Virtue and Virtues Chapter VI Virtue, Activity, and the
Actualization of Humanity 1. Virtue, Activity and Happiness 2.
Contemplation and Self-Completion (Cheng) 3. Being One with God and Being
One with Heaven 4. External Goods 5. The Value of Having Virtue Chapter VII
The Practical and the Contemplative 1. Contemplative Activity and
Contemplative Life 2. Self and Self-actualization 3. Self and the Others 4.
The Value of Contemplation Bibliography Greek Glossary Chinese Glossary
Subject Index Name Index

Rezensionen

"[T]his is a very valuable volume. It is a rich and textually grounded discussion of these two thinkers. It is an illuminating account of the parallels and divergences between them." -- Brad Wilburn, Chadron State College, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Yu's book is the best book on comparative philosophy I have ever read. He has proposed a creative methodology and he applies his expert knowledge of Greek and Chinese philosophy with great care and insight. I recommend this book without reservation." -- Nicholas F. Gier, University of Idaho, Journal of Chinese Philosophy