Author: Steven Shankman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488942
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Book Description
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Author: Steven Shankman
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453131
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Author: Lisa Raphals
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
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This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108340326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Book Description
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.
Author: Hans Beck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Author: Hyunjin Kim
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Argues that Greece was an integral part of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilization and that this had a major impact on the ways in which the Greeks chose to represent foreigners in their literature.
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760780558
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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Book Description
A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences, in agriculture, city planning and institutions. Provides a model for collaborative, comparative work on ancient civilisations.
Author: Jean-Paul Reding
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351950053
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chinese rational thinking are one and the same phenomenon. Rather than stressing the extreme differences between these two cultures - as most other writings on these subjects - Reding looks for the parameters that have to be restored to see the similarities. Reding maintains that philosophy is like an unknown continent discovered simultaneously in both China and Greece, but from different starting-points. The book comprises seven essays moving thematically from conceptual analysis, logic and categories to epistemology and ontology, with an incursion in the field of comparative metaphorology. One of the book's main concerns is a systematic examination of the problem of linguistic relativism through many detailed examples.
Author: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129165
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication-each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority. By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.
