knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China /
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Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant.
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New York :
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Cassell,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000.
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1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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codeMantra
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9781847141842
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Title
Siren and the sage.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Chinese literature-- To 221 B.C.-- History and criticism.