The siren and the sage : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China / / Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant

• Autore: Shankman Steven <1947->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Cassell, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.9001
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Intellectual life; China Intellectual life
• Altri autori: DurrantStephen W. <1944->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 jux
• Titolo autorizzato: The siren and the sage
• ISBN: 1-281-29189-7; 9786611291891; 1-84714-184-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818123203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II