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Analogical investigations : historical and cross-cultural perspectives on human reasoning
Western philosophy and science are responsible for constructing some powerful tools of investigation, aiming at discovering the truth, delivering robust explanations, verifying conjectures, showing that inferences are sound and demonstrating results conclusively. By contrast reasoning that depends on analogies has often been viewed with suspicion. Professor Lloyd first explores the origins of those Western ideals, criticises some of their excesses and redresses the balance in favour of looser, admittedly non-demonstrative analogical reasoning. For this he takes examples both from ancient Greek and Chinese thought and from the materials of recent ethnography to show how different ancient and modern cultures have developed different styles of reasoning. He also develops two original but controversial ideas, that of semantic stretch (to cast doubt on the literal/metaphorical dichotomy) and the multidimensionality of reality (to bypass the realism versus relativism and nature versus nurture controversies). Cover p. 4.
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The delusions of invulnerability: wisdom and morality in ancient Greece, China and today
How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China? How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked? How was a yearning for invulnerability reconciled with a sense of human frailty? In each chapter of this fascinating analysis ancient Greek and Chinese ideas and practices are used as a basis for critical reflections on the predicaments we continue to face today, with a particular focus on the key Greek ideas of the equal participation of all citizens in the political process, and on the key Chinese one of a dedication to the ideal of the welfare of all under heaven
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The delusions of invulnerability : wisdom and morality in ancient Greece, China and today
How were the aims of philosophy and the responsibilities of philosophers conceived in ancient Greece and China?How were the learned elite recruited and controlled; how were their speculations and advice influenced by the different types of audiences they faced and the institutions in which they worked?.
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The Way and the Word
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication-each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science.Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority.By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.
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Regimes of Comparatism
Comparatism is reflexive comparison. The regime of comparatism is the horizon of knowledge in which each individual comparison is received and judged. The aim of this book is to turn the comparative insight on itself and compare different comparative moments, exploring various frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology.
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Cognition et culture : science grecque et science chinoise
Cognition and Culture : The Comparative Study of Greek and Chinese Sciences. G. E. R. Lloyd.
This paper addresses three interrelated questions. Are there important differences in the ways in which such inquiries as astronomy, mathematics and medicine developed in ancient Greece and China? If so, can we say why? Third, what can be learnt from such a study about more general issues to do with the relations between culture and cognition? The study argues that the first question should be answered yes, and that some of the principal differences we uncover—for example in the notions of proof—relate to the social and political institutions of scientific inquiries themselves. Accordingly the study of the development of science in ancient societies demands different models from those assumed to be applicable to the investigation of cognitive development in children.
Lloyd Geoffrey E. R. Cognition et culture : science grecque et science chinoise. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 51ᵉ année, N. 6, 1996. pp. 1185-1200.
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On Ancient Medicine (review)
When that point is made in On Ancient Medicine chapter 1, Schiefsky detects no irony, even though the continuation undermines the concession (if there is one) to meteorology by adding that \"there is nothing by reference to which one would necessarily attain clear knowledge\" (chapter 1).
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Soigner et servir: Histoire sociale et culturelle de la médecine grecque à l'époque hellénistique (review)
The subtitle of this book, \"a social and cultural history of Greek medicine in the Hellenistic period,\" is somewhat misleading, since it deals almost exclusively with elite medicine. In the first three chapters of the book, dealing with the engagement, recognition, and mobility of Hellenistic doctors, Dr. Massar draws very largely on the epigraphic evidence, especially that relating to decrees honoring practicing doctors for their services.
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