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Being, Humanity, and Understanding - Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies (Hardcover)
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Being, Humanity, and Understanding - Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies (Hardcover)
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G. E. R. Lloyd explores the variety of ideas and assumptions that
humans have entertained concerning three main topics: being, or
what there is; humanity--what makes a human being a human; and
understanding, both of the world and of one another. Amazingly
diverse views have been held on these issues by different
individuals and collectivities in both ancient and modern times.
Lloyd juxtaposes the evidence available from ethnography and from
the study of ancient societies, both to describe that diversity and
to investigate the problems it poses. Many of the ideas in question
are deeply puzzling, even paradoxical, to the point where they have
often been described as irrational or frankly unintelligible. Many
implicate fundamental moral issues and value judgements, where
again we may seem to be faced with an impossible task in attempting
to arrive at a fair-minded evaluation. How far does it seem that we
are all the prisoners of the conceptual systems of the
collectivities to which we happen to belong? To what extent and in
what circumstances is it possible to challenge the basic concepts
of such systems? Being, Humanity, and Understanding examines these
questions cross-culturally and seeks to draw out the implications
for the revisability of some of our habitual assumptions concerning
such topics as ontology, morality, nature, relativism,
incommensurability, the philosophy of language, and the pragmatics
of communication.
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