Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics present highly articulate views on how one should live; both of these traditions remain influential in modern philosophy. The question arises how these traditions can be compared with one another. Comparative ethics is a relatively young discipline, and this volume is a major contribution to the field. Fundamental questions about the nature of comparing ethics are treated in two introductory chapters, followed by chapters on core issues in each of the traditions: harmony, virtue, friendship, knowledge, the relation of ethics to morality, relativism. The volume...
Chinese and Greco-Roman ethics present highly articulate views on how one should live; both of these traditions remain influential in modern philosoph...
Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle s On memory and recollection and Plotinus On perception and memory (IV 6); the latter also wrote at length about memory in his Problems connected with the soul (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). In both authors memory is treated as a modest faculty: both authors assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs; and basic cognitive capacities are assumed on which memory depends. In particular, both theories use phantasia (representation) to explain memory. Aristotle takes representations to be...
Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle s On memory and recollection and Plotinus On perception and memory ...
