دانلود کتاب Skill in Ancient Ethics: The Legacy of China, Greece and Rome

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nContributors\nIntroduction\n 1. Skill in Greek and Roman Ethics\n 2. Skill in Chinese Ethics\n References\nPart One Skill in Plato’s Ethics\n1 Socrates: Apprentice at Politics\n Introduction\n 1. Is Socrates not the first?\n 2. Only Socrates\n 3. Being a craft sman and performing the functions of the craft\n 4. How Socrates performs the craft of politics\n 5. Summary and conclusion\n References\n2 The Question is not ‘Can Virtue be Taught?’ but ‘Can Virtue be Learned?’\n 1. The Meno : is virtue teachable?\n 2. Protagoras (320c–328d)\n 3. Protagoras in the Protagoras\n 4. Teaching a language vs teaching flute-playing\n 5. A defence of Protagoras’ evidence over Socrates\n 6. The nature of a skill according to Socrates (and Plato)\n 7. Protagoras’ evidence fi ts Socrates’ assumptions regarding the nature of a skill\n 8. Conclusion\n References\n3 The Contest Between Philosophy and Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias\n Introduction\n 1. Orders and ends\n 2. The architectonic craft\n 3. The objects of rhetoric and philosophy\n 4. A Gorgian inconsistency\n 5. Review of the analogy and disanalogy\n 6. Philosopher kings in the Gorgias\n 7. The use of rhetoric\n References\n4 A Dewian Conception of Skill as Clue to the Analogy Between Craft and Virtue in the Platonic Dialogues\n 1. Specifying an art’s end\n 2. A false analogy: one skill, one end\n 3. Scholarly consensus\n 4. A Dewian conception of technê\n 5. Applying the Dewian model to the Republic\n 6. Conclusions\n References\nPart Two Skill in Aristotle’s Ethics\n5 Steering Against the Bad: An Aristotelian Account of Virtue as Two-way1\n 1. Limiting the powers disanalogy between skill and virtue\n 2. Acting knowingly and for the good\n 3. Constraining the scope of possibilities for action\n 4. The two-wayness of virtue’s rational order\n 5. Steering against the bad as a way of getting it right\n 6. Conclusion\n References\n6 Virtue Cultivation and the Skill of Emotion Regulation\n Introduction\n 1. The virtue-skill analogy\n 2. The Orektikon and character virtue\n 3. Phantasia as non-rational evaluative cognition\n 4. Appearance-based emotions\n 5. Phantastic habituation and emotion regulation\n References\n7 Aristotle on Techne: Two Theses in Search of a Synthesis?\n Introduction\n 1. The ‘official’ conception of techne: Cognitive-theoretical emphasis\n 2. Techne as practico-experiential\n References\nPart Three Skill in Stoic Ethics\n8 The Craft sman of Impulse: Chrysippus on Expertise and Moral Development1\n 1. Preliminaries: impulse and right reason\n 2. Second senses: expertise and concept formation\n 3. The craft sman of impulse\n 4. Conclusion\n References\n9 Being and Becoming Good: Seneca’s Two Moral Conceptions of Ars\n Introduction\n 1. Wisdom and craft s or skills\n 2. Wisdom as a craft or skill\n 3. Becoming good as an ars\n 4. The ars of the proficiens and the ars of the wise with regard to the blows of fate\n 5. Doing good deeds as an activity of the proficiens and an activity of the wise\n 6. Conclusion\n References\nPart Four Skill in Confucian Ethics\n10 Cultivating Goodness or Manifesting Goodness: Two Interpretations of the Mencius\n 1. The question\n 2. The Cultivation Model\n 3. The Manifestation Model\n 3a. The Manifestation-Will Model\n 3b. The Manifestation-Mixed Xin Model\n 4. Concluding remarks\n References\n11 Ritual as a Skill: Ethical Cultivation and the Skill Model in the Xunzi\n 1. The skill model of virtue\n 2. Xunzi’s ethics and the skill analogy\n 3. Ritual learning as skill acquisition\n 4. Ritual creation and skills\n References\nPart Five Skill and Ethics in the Zhuangzi\n12 A Path with No End: Skill and Dao in Mozi and Zhuangzi\n Introduction\n 1. Dao, models and skill in the Mozi\n 2. Cook Ding on dao versus skill\n 3. Proficiency in the patterns\n 4. The ends of dao\n 5. An ethics of dao and de\n 6. Conclusion\n References\n13 Skilfulness and Uselessness in the Zhuangzi\n 1. A tension in the text\n 2. Uselessness and timeliness\n 3. Performance and non- attachment\n 4. Between attachment and detachment\n 5. Uselessness as the basis of usefulness\n 6. Uselessness and politics\n 7. Conclusion\n References\n14 Dao and Agency: What do the Zhuangzi’s Skill Stories Tell Us about Life?\n Introduction, and some remarks on ‘skill’ in the Zhuangzi\n 1. Dao and ‘skill’ in the stories\n 2. Do you have (a) dao?\n 3. Dao, agency and life\n References\nPart Six Comparative Perspectives on Skill in Ethics\n15 Can One Become Wise by Learning to Catch Cicadas? Analogies between Craft s and Wisdom in Daoism and Stoicism\n Introduction and texts\n 1. Why is excellence in skills paradigmatic for the art of living?\n 2. The differences in the Stoic and Daoist craft analogies\n 3. The common denominator behind the differences\n 4. Why the specialist crafts can (or cannot) be conducive to wisdom\n References\n16 Gendered Skill: Chinese and Greek Skill-Knowledge Analogies from Archery and Weaving\n 1. Chinese archery metaphors\n 2. Greek archery metaphors\n 3. Chinese analogies from weaving\n 4. Greek analogies from weaving\n 5. Conclusions\n References\n17 The Skilful Wanderer: On the Risks and Rewards of Travel in Plato and Zhuangzi\n Introduction\n 1. The a(nti)teliology of wandering\n 2. Wandering inside the world\n 3. Wandering as transformative: Between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’\n 4. The privations of the wanderer in Ancient Greece\n 5. Wandering in mere eikos: Sophistry in Phaedrus\n 6. Toward an ethics of wandering: Zhuangzi and Plato compared\n Works Cited\nIndex