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HOW HABITS OF CULTURE SHAPE OUR RATIONAL THINKING
A COMPARISON OF CLASSICAL GREECE AND ANCIENT CHINA |
| By: |
John Warden |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£89.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
077344503X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780773445031 |
| Publisher: |
THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LTD |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
A study of the complex interplay between language, and modes of thinking as observed in the surviving literature of classical Greece and the roughly contemporary corpus inherited from the age of Confucius in China. It intends to identify some characteristics of the way we think - about ourselves and the world around us. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a succinct yet remarkably incisive study of the complex interplay between language, and modes of thinking as observed in the surviving literature of classical Greece and the roughly contemporary corpus inherited from the age of Confucius in China. The aim of the volume is to identify some characteristics of the way we think - about ourselves and the world around us. These attitudes are not the inevitable furniture of the human mind. They are our inheritance from the Greeks. The book starts by examining the influence of Plato, his emphasis on abstraction and the incorporeal, and teleological nature of his thought. it looks for the origins of these ideas in earlier Greek thinkers. In the second part a comparison is made with the thinking of Chinese philosophers - Confucius and his followers - who lived at a similar period, but were, as far as can be seen, uninfluenced by Greek ideas.Differences and similarities are explored, with the aid of extensive quotation from both cultures, in attitudes to knowledge and learning, in modes of reasoning and in responses to a fundamental set of metaphors of movement which have been seen as lying at the basis of all human patterns of thought. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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