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Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Perspectives and Reverberations

Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy: Perspectives and Reverberations

Lai, Karyn
Benitez, Rick
Kim, Hyun Jin

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1350049573
ISBN13: 9781350049574
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 1 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book engages in cross-tradition scholarship, investigating the processes associated with cultivating or nurturing the self in order to live good lives. Both Ancient Chinese and Greek philosophers provide accounts of the life lived well: a Confucian junzi, a Daoist sage and a Greek phronimos.

By focusing on the processes rather than the aims of cultivating a good life, an international team of scholars investigate how a person develops and practices a way of life especially in these two traditions. They look at what is involved in developing practical wisdom, exercising reason, cultivating equanimity and fostering reliability. Drawing on the insights of thinkers including Plato, Confucius, Han Fei and Marcus Aurelius, they examine themes of harmony, balance and beauty, highlight the different concerns of scepticism across both traditions, and discuss action as an indispensable method of learning and, indeed, as constitutive of self. The result is a valuable collection opening up new lines of inquiry in ethics, demonstrating the importance of philosophical ideas from across cultural traditions.

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