Summary
"A
Comparative Study of the Origins of Ethical Thought: Hellenism and
Hebraism is the first text to analyze Greek and Hebrew ethical
thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of
the two systems - on their own and in relation to one another."
"Writing from a Japanese frame of reference, the author
incorporates important insights of Eastern thinkers that are often
overlooked in the West. Well-conceived and logically presented, A
Comparative Study of the Origins of Ethical Thought covers the
practical philosophy of the ancient Greeks from the pre-Socratics
through Aristotle, the religious ethics of the ancient Hebrews from
the Ten Commandments to the Wisdom literature, and the consequences
of Greek and Hebrew ethics from philosophical ideas of love and
righteousness to religious notions of retribution and
atonement."--BOOK JACKET.
