The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue

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The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue

Author(s): Jiyuan Yu (Author)

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2007
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 288 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0415956471
  • ISBN-13: 9780415956475

Book Description

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.  It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“[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

About the Author

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.

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