Ancient Greece And China Compared
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Ancient Greece And China Compared
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Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-11
Ancient Greece And China Compared written by G. E. R. Lloyd and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with History categories.
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.
Early China Ancient Greece
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Author : Steven Shankman
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2002-02-21
Early China Ancient Greece written by Steven Shankman and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-21 with Philosophy categories.
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Rulers And Ruled In Ancient Greece Rome And China
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Author : Hans Beck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-04
Rulers And Ruled In Ancient Greece Rome And China written by Hans Beck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with History categories.
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Ethnicity And Foreigners In Ancient Greece And China
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Author : Hyunjin Kim
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2009-05-21
Ethnicity And Foreigners In Ancient Greece And China written by Hyunjin Kim and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-21 with History categories.
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.
Festivals Feasts And Gender Relations In Ancient China And Greece
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Author : Yiqun Zhou
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-16
Festivals Feasts And Gender Relations In Ancient China And Greece written by Yiqun Zhou and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-16 with History categories.
Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West comparison. This book examines gender relations in the two ancient societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as family banquets, public festivals, and religious feasts. Two distinct patterns of interpersonal affinity and conflict emerge from the Chinese and Greek sources that show men and women organising themselves and interacting with each other in social occasions intended for collective pursuit of pleasure. Through an analysis of the two different patterns, Yiqun Zhou illuminates the different socio-political mechanisms, value systems, and fabrics of human bonds in the two classical traditions. Her book will be important for readers who are interested in the comparative study of societies, gender studies, women's history, and the legacy of civilisations.
The Geography Of Thought
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Author : Richard E. Nisbett
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-01-11
The Geography Of Thought written by Richard E. Nisbett and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with Psychology categories.
When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment...and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world. 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 comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts. 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 behaviour.
Comparative Essays In Early Greek And Chinese Rational Thinking
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Author : Jean-Paul Reding
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Comparative Essays In Early Greek And Chinese Rational Thinking written by Jean-Paul Reding and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Divination And Prediction In Early China And Ancient Greece
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Author : Lisa Raphals
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-17
Divination And Prediction In Early China And Ancient Greece written by Lisa Raphals and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with History categories.
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Divination And Prediction In Early China And Ancient Greece
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Author : Professor Lisa Raphals
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Divination And Prediction In Early China And Ancient Greece written by Professor Lisa Raphals and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with categories.
Compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
The Siren And The Sage
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Author : Steven Shankman
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2003-09-16
The Siren And The Sage written by Steven Shankman and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-16 with Philosophy categories.
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.