The Beginning and the End -- A Comparative Study of Economic Thought in Ancient China and Ancient Greece

Author: Wang Daqing
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book approaches the topic from the perspective of economic thought, employing the method of historical comparative research to study the "concept of fundamental and secondary" in ancient China and ancient Greece. It is broadly divided into two levels: (1) a comparison of the "concept of fundamental and secondary" among various schools of thinkers; (2) a comparison of the "concept of fundamental and secondary" between ancient Chinese and ancient Greek thinkers. Additionally, the book takes China's "fundamental" () and "secondary" (), along with their related three pairs of ethical and philosophical categories—namely, "righteousness" () and "benefit" (), "public" () and "private" (), "good" () and "evil" ()—as the primary reference framework and starting point for analysis. It further explores comparable or largely analogous categories from the discussions of ancient Greek thinkers to conduct comparative research.