Cultivating a good life in early Chinese and ancient Greek philosophy perspectives and reverberations /
Lai, Karyn, 1964-
Cultivating a good life in early Chinese and ancient Greek philosophy perspectives and reverberations / [electronic book] : Karyn Lai, Rick Benitez and Hyun Jin Kim. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
Part 1: Harmony, Balance, Beauty: Understanding Conceptions of Cultivation -- Cultivation and Harmony: Plato and Confucius -- Harmony in general -- Communal and personal harmony -- Plato and Confucius on the practice of harmony -- Cultivating Noble Simplicity: Plato -- The Beauty Ladder and the Mind-Heart Excursion: Plato and Zhuangzi -- Plato's beauty ladder -- Zhuangzi's mind-heart excursion -- Comparative models of cultivation -- Awareness and Spontaneity: Three Perspectives in the Zhuangzi -- Awareness, spontaneity, and agency -- Animal awareness -- An anthropological perspective -- Understanding 'Dao's Patterns': Han Fei -- Part 2: Doubt, Predicament, Conflict: Cognitive, Affective, and Epistemic Difficulties -- Skepsis and Doubt: Ancient Greece and the East -- Positivity of Greek skepsis and negativity of Japanese -- Scepticism and tranquillity -- Protreptikos logos in Plato's Euthydemus: Doubt and philosophy -- Chinese and Greek hodos -- Confucius and Socrates: Cultivation in each setting -- Socrates' Kingly Art as the target of his philosophical hunting -- Philosopher as the hunter -- Skepsis, as consideration and sceptic way of living -- Sceptics' cognitive therapy and meditation -- Wisdom and Cognitive Conflict: Benign Perplexity in the Outlines of Scepticism -- Wisdom and its cultivation -- The school of perplexity -- The storm of aporia -- Understanding Fortune and Misfortune in a Good Life: 'Solon' and 'Confucius' -- Emotion and Self-Cultivation: Marcus Aurelius and Mengzi -- Marcus Aurelius -- Mengzi -- Comparison -- Dislodging Mundane Wisdom: The Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi and the New Testament Gospels -- Categories and themes of 'instruction interactions' -- Part 3: Here, Now, Ever-after: How to Practise and Achieve a Good Life -- Knowing How to Act: Aristotle -- Aristotle as ethical anti-theorist -- Practising virtue and knowing what to do -- Practical truth and metaethical realism -- Knowing: how to argue about ethics -- 'Judgement' and 'master rules' in ethics -- Learning to Be Reliable: Confucius' Analects -- Xin: its place in the Analects -- Acting reliably -- Learning to be reliable -- Auditory Perception and Cultivation: The Wenzi -- Sensual perception and the exemplary person -- Auditory perception and self-cultivation -- Auditory perception and the content of the Wenzi -- Cultivation and the Arts of Writing: Liu Xie -- Liu Xie and his Wenxin diaolong -- Cultural patternings -- Squandering energy, dissipating vitality -- Nourishing vitality -- A virtuous circle: The arts of living and the arts of writing -- Writing in the service of life -- Death and Happiness: Han China -- Views of happiness in early Chinese texts -- Representations of the netherworld -- Attitudes towards the netherworld -- Mortuary practices and the search for happiness .
Electronic reproduction.:
ProQuest LibCentral.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781350049574
Conduct of life
Philosophy, Chinese
Philosophy, Ancient
181.11
Cultivating a good life in early Chinese and ancient Greek philosophy perspectives and reverberations / [electronic book] : Karyn Lai, Rick Benitez and Hyun Jin Kim. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
Part 1: Harmony, Balance, Beauty: Understanding Conceptions of Cultivation -- Cultivation and Harmony: Plato and Confucius -- Harmony in general -- Communal and personal harmony -- Plato and Confucius on the practice of harmony -- Cultivating Noble Simplicity: Plato -- The Beauty Ladder and the Mind-Heart Excursion: Plato and Zhuangzi -- Plato's beauty ladder -- Zhuangzi's mind-heart excursion -- Comparative models of cultivation -- Awareness and Spontaneity: Three Perspectives in the Zhuangzi -- Awareness, spontaneity, and agency -- Animal awareness -- An anthropological perspective -- Understanding 'Dao's Patterns': Han Fei -- Part 2: Doubt, Predicament, Conflict: Cognitive, Affective, and Epistemic Difficulties -- Skepsis and Doubt: Ancient Greece and the East -- Positivity of Greek skepsis and negativity of Japanese -- Scepticism and tranquillity -- Protreptikos logos in Plato's Euthydemus: Doubt and philosophy -- Chinese and Greek hodos -- Confucius and Socrates: Cultivation in each setting -- Socrates' Kingly Art as the target of his philosophical hunting -- Philosopher as the hunter -- Skepsis, as consideration and sceptic way of living -- Sceptics' cognitive therapy and meditation -- Wisdom and Cognitive Conflict: Benign Perplexity in the Outlines of Scepticism -- Wisdom and its cultivation -- The school of perplexity -- The storm of aporia -- Understanding Fortune and Misfortune in a Good Life: 'Solon' and 'Confucius' -- Emotion and Self-Cultivation: Marcus Aurelius and Mengzi -- Marcus Aurelius -- Mengzi -- Comparison -- Dislodging Mundane Wisdom: The Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi and the New Testament Gospels -- Categories and themes of 'instruction interactions' -- Part 3: Here, Now, Ever-after: How to Practise and Achieve a Good Life -- Knowing How to Act: Aristotle -- Aristotle as ethical anti-theorist -- Practising virtue and knowing what to do -- Practical truth and metaethical realism -- Knowing: how to argue about ethics -- 'Judgement' and 'master rules' in ethics -- Learning to Be Reliable: Confucius' Analects -- Xin: its place in the Analects -- Acting reliably -- Learning to be reliable -- Auditory Perception and Cultivation: The Wenzi -- Sensual perception and the exemplary person -- Auditory perception and self-cultivation -- Auditory perception and the content of the Wenzi -- Cultivation and the Arts of Writing: Liu Xie -- Liu Xie and his Wenxin diaolong -- Cultural patternings -- Squandering energy, dissipating vitality -- Nourishing vitality -- A virtuous circle: The arts of living and the arts of writing -- Writing in the service of life -- Death and Happiness: Han China -- Views of happiness in early Chinese texts -- Representations of the netherworld -- Attitudes towards the netherworld -- Mortuary practices and the search for happiness .
Electronic reproduction.:
ProQuest LibCentral.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781350049574
Conduct of life
Philosophy, Chinese
Philosophy, Ancient
181.11