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Ideas in Context Ser.: Adversaries and Authorities : Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science by G. E. R. Lloyd (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521556953
ISBN-139780521556958
eBay Product ID (ePID)777399
Product Key Features
Number of Pages276 Pages
Publication NameAdversaries and Authorities : Investigations Into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEurope / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Eastern, Asia / China, History
Publication Year1996
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Science, History
AuthorG. E. R. Lloyd
SeriesIdeas in Context Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-038071
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"This book will be of great value to cultural and religious historians as well as to scholars of Greek and Chinese cosmology." Linda L. Lam-Easton, Religious Studies Review, 'It is in fact a comparison of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy. This is an important subject [and] ... this is a book which everyone interested in anceint philosophy and science must read. Let us hope that Lloyd goes on to write many others on the same theme.' Greece and Rome, 'It is in fact a comparison of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy. This is an important subject [and] ... this is a book which everyone interested in anceint philosophy and science must read. Let us hope that Lloyd goes on to write many others on the same theme.'Greece and Rome, 'It is in fact a comparison of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy. This is an important subject [and] … this is a book which everyone interested in anceint philosophy and science must read. Let us hope that Lloyd goes on to write many others on the same theme.' Greece and Rome
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 42
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal181.1/1
Table Of Content1. Comparative studies and their problems: methodological preliminaries; 2. Adversaries and authorities; 3. Methodology, epistemology and their uses; 4. The techniques of persuasion; 5. Causes and correlations; 6. Greek and Chinese dichotomies revisited; 7. Finite and infinite in Greece and China; 8. Heavenly harmonies; 9. The politics of the body; 10. Science in antiquity: the Greek and Chinese cases and their relevance to the problems of culture and cognition; Glossary of Chinese and Greek terms; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisThis 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., Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book offers answers to these questions with a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine, and by relating the science produced in each ancient civilisation to the values of the society in question., Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked., This book examines the reasons why science and philosophy developed differently in ancient Greece and ancient China.
LC Classification NumberQ127.G7 L55 1996
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