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Article: Yu, Jiyuan. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue.(Book review)
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- East-West Connections
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- January 1, 2007
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Yu, Jiyuan. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue. New York: Routledge, 2007. xii + 276 pp. Hardback.
Aristotle famously described friends to be like mirrors, wherein a person may see himself more truly. Jiyuan Yu employs this image in his comparative study of Confucian and Aristotelian ethics. He argues that by comparing these two moral traditions we may come to understand them better and above all come to "a better understanding of virtue and human perfection." Of course, Yu is aware of the charge that these two ethical systems so removed in time, place, culture, and so forth are incommensurable. Nevertheless, he thinks that this objection may ...