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Cultivating a good life in early Chinese and ancient Greek philosophy [electronic book] : perspectives and reverberations / Karyn Lai, Rick Benitez and Hyun Jin Kim.

By: Lai, Karyn, 1964- [author].
Contributor(s): Benitez, Rick [author] | Kim, Hyun Jin, 1982- [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (269 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781350049574.Subject(s): Conduct of life | Philosophy, Chinese | Philosophy, AncientDDC classification: 181.11 Online resources: E-book
Contents:
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 .
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

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.

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Author notes provided by Syndetics

Karyn Lai is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Rick Benitez is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. Hyun Jin Kim is Senior Lecturer in Classics in the Discipline of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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