03197nam 2200709Ia 450 991045123310332120200520144314.01-281-29189-797866112918911-84714-184-6(CKB)1000000000405155(EBL)436044(OCoLC)290595853(SSID)ssj0000246351(PQKBManifestationID)11923210(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246351(PQKBWorkID)10199191(PQKB)10109042(MiAaPQ)EBC436044(Au-PeEL)EBL436044(CaPaEBR)ebr10224750(CaONFJC)MIL129189(OCoLC)893333838(EXLCZ)99100000000040515519990507d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe siren and the sage[electronic resource] knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China /Steven Shankman and Stephen DurrantLondon ;New York Cassell20001 online resource (268 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-304-70639-6 0-304-70640-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey; Part II: Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian; Part III: The philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation; Afterwords; Bibliography; IndexA 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 juxGreek literatureHistory and criticismChinese literatureTo 221 B.CHistory and criticismComparative literatureGreek and ChineseComparative literatureChinese and GreekPhilosophy, AncientGreeceIntellectual lifeChinaIntellectual lifeElectronic books.Greek literatureHistory and criticism.Chinese literatureHistory and criticism.Comparative literatureGreek and Chinese.Comparative literatureChinese and Greek.Philosophy, Ancient.880.9001Shankman Steven1947-947360Durrant Stephen W.1944-947361MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451233103321The siren and the sage2284460UNINA