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    Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections

Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections

Geoffrey Lloyd
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      Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent disciplines, 'astronomy', 'geography', 'anatomy', and so on, in the ancient world? Are logic and its laws universal? Is there one ontology - a single world - to which all attempts at understanding must be considered to be directed? When we encounter apparently very different views of reality, how far can that be put down to a differencein conceptions of what needs explaining, or of what counts as an explanation, or to different preferred modes of reasoning or styles of inquiry? Do the notions of truth and belief represent reliable cross-cultural universals? In another area, what can ancient history teach us about today's social and political problems? Are the discourses of human nature and of human rights universally applicable? What political institutions do we need to help secure equity and justice within nation states and between them? Lloyd sets out to answer all these questions, and to convince us that the science and culture of ancient Greece and China provide precious resources to advance modern debates.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Lloyd EAN: 9780199288700 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 307 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-02-02 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of ideas, Philosophy of science, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy

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      Geoffrey Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge.
      Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent disciplines, 'astronomy', 'geography', 'anatomy', and so on, in the ancient world? Are logic and its laws universal? Is there one ontology - a single world - to which all attempts at understanding must be considered to be directed? When we encounter apparently very different views of reality, how far can that be put down to a differencein conceptions of what needs explaining, or of what counts as an explanation, or to different preferred modes of reasoning or styles of inquiry? Do the notions of truth and belief represent reliable cross-cultural universals? In another area, what can ancient history teach us about today's social and political problems? Are the discourses of human nature and of human rights universally applicable? What political institutions do we need to help secure equity and justice within nation states and between them? Lloyd sets out to answer all these questions, and to convince us that the science and culture of ancient Greece and China provide precious resources to advance modern debates.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Geoffrey Lloyd EAN: 9780199288700 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 307 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2006-02-02 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      History of ideas, Philosophy of science, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, East Asian and Indian philosophy

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      Geoffrey Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge.

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