9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato’s Laches

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Part I. Methods
5. 1 Rudimentary remarks on comparing ancient Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics 3
6. 2 Comparative ethics: Some methodological considerations 18
7. Part II. Ethical theory
8. 3 Two kinds of moral relativism 25
9. Part III. China
10. 4 Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics 37
11. 5 Why Mozi is included in the Daoist Canon Or, why there is more to Mohism than utilitarian ethics 63
12. 6 Coming to terms with dé 􁖋: The deconstruction of ‘virtue’ and an exercise in scientifi c morality 92
13. 7 Virtue ethics in ancient China: Light shed and shadows cast 126
14. Part IV. Greece and Rome
15. 8 Parrhesy and irony Plato’s Socrates and the Epicurean tradition 155
16. 9 The knowledge about human well-being in Plato’s Laches 170
17. 10 Aristotle Ethics without morality? 191
18. 11 Aristotle on friendship as the paradigmatic form of relationship 208
19. Part V. Comparisons
20. 12 The Greeks and Chinese on the emotions and the problem of crosscultural universals and cultural relativism 241
21. 13 Complexity and simplicity in Aristotle and early Daoist thought 259
22. 14 The ethics of prediction 278
23. 15 Being and unity in the metaphysics and ethics of Aristotle and Liezi 304
24. General index 323
25. Index of names 334
26. Index locorum – Chinese authors 336
27. Index locorum – Greek and Roman authors 339