The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China - Couverture rigide

Shankman, Steven; Durrant, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0304706396 ISBN 13 : 9780304706396

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

Synopsis

A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's "Odyssey", the ancient Chinese "Classic of Poetry", Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", Sima Qian's "Records of the Historian", Plato's "Symposium", and Laozi's "Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi". The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce the foundational texts of each tradition which continue to influence the majority of the world's population.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Steven Shankman is a professor at the University of Oregon.

Stephen Durrant is a professor at the University of Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0304706396
• ISBN 13: 9780304706396
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible