Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. I. Methods
5. Introduction 3
6. Models for living in ancient Greece and China 21
7. On Comparing Ancient Chinese and Greek Ethics: The tertium comparationis as Tool of Analysis and Evaluation 29
8. II. China
9. The Consciousness of the Dead as a Philosophical Problem in Ancient China 59
10. The Ideas of Human Nature in Early China 93
11. Cosmic Life and Human Life in the “Book of Changes” 117
12. Good Fortune and Bliss in Early China 145
13. Bing-distress in the Zuo zhuan: the not-so-good-life, the social self and moral sentiment among persons of rank in Warring States China 157
14. Pleasures and Delights, Sustaining and Consuming 181
15. III. Greece and Rome
16. Is the Concept of the Mind Parochial? 213
17. Taking Thoughts about Life seriously 227
18. Filial Piety in Plato 247
19. The Good Life for Plato’s Tripartite Soul 265
20. Good counsel and the role of logos for human excellence 281
21. Hedonê in the Poets and Epicurus 303
22. IV. Comparisons
23. Autonomy, Fate, Divination and the Good Life 321
24. Mencius and the Stoics – tui and oikeiôsis 341
25. The Role and Pursuit of the Virtue of Equanimity in Ancient China and Greece 363
26. Index locorum 387
27. General index of subjects 395