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Article: Sim, May. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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SIM, May. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 224 pp. Cloth, $85.00--Sim tells us in her introductory chapter that "My aim is to involve these authors in each other's problems and to engage both in reconsidering the contemporary difficulties to which they speak with surprising frequency in one voice, or at least genuine harmony." She succeeds admirably. One comes away from this volume with the feeling that one has audited a brilliant conversation between Confucius and Aristotle. Forced into dialogue by Sire, her authors find greater accord than disaccord on issues related to the self, to fancily life, and to ...