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portada The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2000
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780304706402
Edition No.
2007

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

Steven Shankman; Stephen Durrant (Author) · Continuum · Paperback

The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China - Steven Shankman; Stephen Durrant

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Synopsis "The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China"

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.

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