Umfang:
Online-Ressource (viii, 257 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781847141842
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9780304706402
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030470640X
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0304706396
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey; Part II: Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian; Part III: The philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation; Afterwords; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780304706396
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Siren and the Sage : Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Sprache:
Englisch
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