A comparative study of the origins of ethical thought

"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."--Jacket.