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The Shape of Ancient Thought
Author | : Thomas McEvilley |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 1015 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781581159332 |
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Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered the product of both Greek and Indian thought—Western and Eastern philosophies. Thomas McEvilley explores how trade, imperialism, and migration currents allowed cultural philosophies to intermingle freely throughout India, Egypt, Greece, and the ancient Near East. This groundbreaking reference will stir relentless debate among philosophers, art historians, and students.
The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India
Author | : Richard Seaford |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108499552 |
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Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
Author | : Jonathan M. Hall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521789990 |
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In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.
Greek Religion and Society
Author | : P. E. Easterling,J. V. Muir |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1985-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521287855 |
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This collection of essays considers many aspects of Greek civil life and reveals how religion manifested itself in institutions, art and literature. Clarifies the more puzzling and elusive elements by tracing the attitudes that lay behind the manifold cults and customs.
The Philosophical Traditions of India
Author | : P T Raju |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781135029425 |
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This volume conveys that Indian philosophy has intricate and complex metaphysical and epistemological theories as other philosophies and that these disciplines – epistemology and metaphysics – are an essential part of Indian philosophy.
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
Author | : Peter Adamson |
Publsiher | : History of Philosophy |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198728023 |
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Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.
The Sea in the Greek Imagination
Author | : Marie-Claire Beaulieu |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812247657 |
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In The Sea in the Greek Imagination, Marie-Claire Beaulieu unifies the multifarious representations of the sea and sea-crossing in Greek myth and imagery by positing the sea as a cosmological boundary between the worlds of the living, the dead, and the gods, or between reality and imagination.
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
Author | : Arthur Waley |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0804711690 |
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In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the "Realist." This book underscores the interplay between these three philosophies, drawing on extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius, and Han Fei Tzu.