Download Full eBooks in PDF
Early China Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Early China Ancient Greece book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Steven Shankman,Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791453138
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Author : G. E. R. Lloyd,Jingyi Jenny Zhao,Qiaosheng Dong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107086661
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 : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107010758
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Author : Hans Beck,Griet Vankeerberghen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485777
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Author : Jean-Paul Reding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351950053
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 : Steven Shankman,Stephen W. Durrant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791488942
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 : Professor Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107293944
Compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Author : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd,Nathan Sivin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300129168
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.
Author : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107292284
Divination was an important and distinctive aspect of religion in both ancient China and ancient Greece, and this book will provide the first systematic account and analysis of the two side by side. Who practised divination in these cultures and who consulted it? What kind of questions did they ask, and what methods were used to answer those questions? As well as these practical aspects, Lisa Raphals also examines divination as a subject of rhetorical and political narratives, and its role in the development of systematic philosophical and scientific inquiry. She explores too the important similarities, differences and synergies between Greek and Chinese divinatory systems, providing important comparative evidence to reassess Greek oracular divination.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 0760780552
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 : Lisa Ann Raphals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Divination
ISBN : 1107291151
"This book is an exploration of divination and prediction in Chinese and Greek antiquity, but it is also a part of two ongoing interdisciplinary and intercultural explorations that have informed my scholarly work. One is the engagement between the disciplines of philosophy and history from a perspective also informed by anthropology. The other is the comparative study of Chinese and Greek antiquity from a shifting viewpoint informed by all three disciplines"--
Author : Steven Shankman,Stephen Durrant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781592443475
The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most distinctly Western is the tradition of logical proof and the related assumption that, as Aristotle put it in 'Metaphysics' 980, 'we all desire to know.' In contrast, the Chinese tradition, as exemplified by Laozi's 'Dao de jing,' cautions that through our desire to know we may forfeit wisdom, thus engendering a split between knowledge and wisdom. 'The Siren and the Sage' is a comparative study of what some of the most influential writers of ancient China and ancient Greece thought it meant to know and whether they distinguished knowledge from wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth through the second centuries BCE, focusing on the 'Odyssey,' the ancient Chinese 'Classic of Poetry,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' Sima Qian's 'Records of the Historian,' Plato's 'Symposium,' Laozi's 'Dao de jing' and the writings of Zhuangzi. The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce foundational texts of each tradition, texts which continue to influence most of the world's peoples. It is intriguing to ask what awareness, if any, these distinctive cultures had of each other. A considerable body of scholarship comparing ancient Greece and ancient China now exists. Scholars are presenting evidence that the two cultures may actually have been aware of each other's presence, even though that awareness was presumably indirect, perhaps mediated by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia. While not directly contributing evidence, the authors argue that comparing the cultures of Greece and China will continue to be an irresistible and important scholarly debate. The book offers a provocative study which is accessible to students and general readers and at the same time contributes to the debate.
Author : Richard Nisbett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439106679
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 : G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894611
Publisher Description
Author : Xiaoqun Wu
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9811344663
This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies. It focuses on three main aspects of mourning of the dead before burial -- lamentation, mourners' gestures and behaviors, and mourning apparel -- to demonstrate the cultural function, purpose, and social influence of mourning. A key comparative study of rituals at the heart of both Western and Chinese culture, this text highlights the cultural function and social influence of rituals of two ancient peoples and will be of interest to all scholars of comparative religion, sociology and anthropology.
