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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136759703321

Titolo

The adventure of the human intellect : self, society, and the divine in ancient world cultures / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-119-16261-0

1-119-16262-9

1-119-16259-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Ancient World: Comparative Histories

THEi Wiley ebooks

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Intellect - History

Intellectual life - History

Self - History

Thought and thinking - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

A critique of the cognitive-historical thesis of the intellectual adventure / Francesca Rochberg -- The intellectual adventure of ancient man : revisiting a classic / Peter Machinist -- The world of ancient Egyptian thought / James P. Allen -- On speculative thought in ancient Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster -- Self, substance, and social metaphysics : the intellectual adventures of Israel and Judah / Ryan Byrne -- Ancient Greece : man the measure of all things / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The thought-world of ancient Rome: a delicate balancing act / Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan -- Self, cosmos, and agency in early China / Lisa Raphals -- Vedic India : thinking and doing / Stephanie W. Jamison -- 'Chronosophy' in classic Maya thought / Stephen Houston -- The word, sacrifice, and divination : Aztec man in the realm of the gods / Guilhem Olivier -- Night thoughts and spiritual adventures : native North America / Peter Nabokov.