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Adversaries and Authorities - Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Hardcover, New)
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Adversaries and Authorities - Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and
differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and
philosophy, concentrating on the period down to AD 300. Professor
Lloyd studies such questions as the attitudes towards authority,
the practice of confrontational debate, the role of methodological
inquiries, the development of techniques of persuasion, the
assumptions made about causal explanation and the focus of interest
in the study of the heavens and in that of the human body. In each
case the Greek and Chinese ways of posing the problems are
carefully distinguished to avoid applying either Greek categories
to Chinese thought or vice versa. Professor Lloyd shows that the
science produced in each ancient civilisation differs in important
respects and relates those differences to the values and social
institutions in question.
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