The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle : Mirrors of Virtue (Paperback)

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Two Revivals
2. The Meaning of Comparison
3. The Possibility of Comparison
4. The Nature of Ethical Argument
5. The Scope of Comparison
6. The Structure of the Book

Chapter I Eudaimonia, Dao, and Virtue

1. Eudaimonia and Dao
2. Virtue: Arete and De
3. De and Ren
4. The Beginning of Ethics
5. Doing Ethics and Being Pious
6. The Paths of Ethics

Chapter II Humanity: Xing and Ergon

1. Human Nature and Humanity
2. Human Function and Human Good Nature
3. Humanity as the Foundation of Ethics
4. Justifying the Existence of Humanity
5. Actualization of Humanity
6. 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