Ancient Greece And China Compared
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Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107086663 |
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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 | : Steven Shankman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791488942 |
Download Early China/Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts?
Author | : Steven Shankman |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2002-02-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791453131 |
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The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Author | : Hans Beck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108485774 |
Download Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Author | : Richard Nisbett |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010-10-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1439106673 |
Download The Geography of Thought Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture. Everyone knows that while different cultures think about the world differently, they use the same equipment for doing their thinking. But what if everyone is wrong? The Geography of Thought documents Richard Nisbett's groundbreaking international research in cultural psychology and shows that people actually think about—and even see—the world differently because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China. As a result, East Asian thought is “holistic”—drawn to the perceptual field as a whole and to relations among objects and events within that field. By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behavior. From feng shui to metaphysics, from comparative linguistics to economic history, a gulf separates the children of Aristotle from the descendants of Confucius. At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important, The Geography of Thought offers both a map to that gulf and a blueprint for a bridge that will span it.
Author | : Hyunjin Kim |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2009-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521894616 |
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Author | : Hans Beck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108622542 |
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Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many similarities between both cultures have been detected, which has energized the field of comparative history. The present volume adds to the debate a creative method of juxtaposing historical societies. Each contribution covers both ancient China and the Mediterranean in an accessible manner. Embarking from the observation that Greek, Roman, and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features, the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses in their culture specific manifestation as demos (Greece), populus (Rome) and min (China).
Author | : Lisa Raphals |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107010756 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521556958 |
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This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy, concentrating on the period down to AD 300. Professor Lloyd studies such questions as the attitudes towards authority, the practice of confrontational debate, the role of methodological inquiries, the development of techniques of persuasion, the assumptions made about causal explanation and the focus of interest in the study of the heavens and in that of the human body. In each case the Greek and Chinese ways of posing the problems are carefully distinguished to avoid applying either Greek categories to Chinese thought or vice versa. Professor Lloyd shows that the science produced in each ancient civilisation differs in important respects and relates those differences to the values and social institutions in question.