Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, G. E. R. Lloyd

Adversaries and Authorities

Investigations Into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
Herausgeber: Skinner, Quentin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the reasons why science and philosophy developed differently in ancient Greece and ancient China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780521553315
• ISBN-10: 0521553318
• Artikelnr.: 26056697

Inhaltsangabe

1. 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.