The siren and the sage : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China /

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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 th...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shankman, Steven, 1947-
Otros Autores: Durrant, Stephen W., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.
Temas:
To 221 B.C.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > To 221 B.C. > History and criticism.
Comparative literature > Greek and Chinese.
Comparative literature > Chinese and Greek.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chinoise > Jusqu'à 221 av. J.-C. > Histoire et critique.
Philosophie ancienne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Chinese literature
Greek literature
Intellectual life
Philosophy, Ancient
Letterkunde.
Filosofie.
Oudheid.
Greece > Intellectual life.
China > Intellectual life.
Grèce > Vie intellectuelle.
Chine > Vie intellectuelle.
China
Greece
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey
  • 1. Poetry and the experience of participation
  • 2. Participation in family and in society
  • China
  • Greece
  • 3. Participation in the natural world
  • Nature and nature imagery in the Classic of Poetry
  • simile from the Odyssey and Classic of Poetry 23: views of nature
  • Nature and nature imagery in the Odyssey: between meadows
  • Nature and the feminine: the Odyssey
  • Nature and the feminine: the Classic of Poetry
  • pt. II Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian
  • 1. History and tradition
  • Sima Qian and his predecessors
  • Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides
  • 2. structures of written history
  • Records of the Historian
  • tragic structure of Thucydides' report
  • 3. tempest of participation: Sima Qian's portrayal of his own era
  • 4. Thucydides' tragic quest for objectivity and the historian's irrepressible "I"
  • pt. III philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation
  • 1. Contexts for the emergence of the sage and the philosopher
  • emergence of the sage
  • emergence of the philosopher
  • 2. From poetry to philosophy
  • Confucius and the Classic of Poetry
  • reduction of poetry to depicting the "ten thousand things" and Plato's critique
  • 3. sage, the philosopher, and the recovery of the participatory dimension
  • Confucius and participation in society
  • Laozi's return to the Dao
  • Zhuangzi's participationist response to Huizi's intentionalism
  • Plato's Symposium, Euripides' Bacchae, and noetic participation.

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