ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |23 pages

Introduction

chapter |29 pages

Eudaimonia, dao, and Virtue

chapter |26 pages

Humanity

Xing and ergon

chapter |17 pages

Virtue, the mean, and disposition

chapter 4|44 pages

Habituation and ritualization

chapter 5|29 pages

Practical wisdom and appropriateness

chapter 6|26 pages

The highest good and external goods

chapter 7|27 pages

The practical and the contemplative