Early China/ancient Greece : thinking through comparisons /

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Other Authors: Shankman, Steven, 1947-, Durrant, Stephen W., 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinoloists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers
  • 2. No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies
  • 3. Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece
  • 4. "These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named": Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato
  • 5. Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding
  • 6. Alluding to the Text, or the Context.
  • 7. Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece
  • 8. The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric
  • 9. Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle's Ethics and the Zhongyong
  • 10. Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece
  • 11. Cratylus and Xunzi on Names
  • 12. Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women inthe Achaemenid and Han Empires
  • 13. Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes?
  • Contributors
  • Index
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