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The siren and the sage : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China / Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant

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Shankman, Steven, 1947-
Published
London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.
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1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)
Additional Creators
Durrant, Stephen W., 1944-
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey -- 1. Poetry and the experience of participation -- 2. Participation in family and in society -- China -- Greece -- 3. Participation in the natural world -- Nature and nature imagery in the Classic of Poetry -- simile from the Odyssey and Classic of Poetry 23: views of nature -- Nature and nature imagery in the Odyssey: between meadows -- Nature and the feminine: the Odyssey -- Nature and the feminine: the Classic of Poetry -- pt. II Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian -- 1. History and tradition -- Sima Qian and his predecessors -- Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides -- 2. structures of written history -- Records of the Historian -- tragic structure of Thucydides' report -- 3. tempest of participation: Sima Qian's portrayal of his own era -- 4. Thucydides' tragic quest for objectivity and the historian's irrepressible "I" -- pt. III philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation -- 1. Contexts for the emergence of the sage and the philosopher -- emergence of the sage -- emergence of the philosopher -- 2. From poetry to philosophy -- Confucius and the Classic of Poetry -- reduction of poetry to depicting the "ten thousand things" and Plato's critique -- 3. sage, the philosopher, and the recovery of the participatory dimension -- Confucius and participation in society -- Laozi's return to the Dao -- Zhuangzi's participationist response to Huizi's intentionalism -- Plato's Symposium, Euripides' Bacchae, and noetic participation.
Summary
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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1847141846 (electronic bk.)
9781847141842 (electronic bk.)
9780304706402
9781847141842
0304706396
030470640X (pbk.)
9780304706396
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index.
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