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Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections

Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections

Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Publisher description: Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilizations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. These include, in philosophy of science, the question of the incommensurability of paradigms, the debate between realism and relativism or constructivism, and between correspondence and coherence conceptions of truth. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent disciplines, 'astronomy' 'geography' 'anatomy' and so on, in the ancient world? Are logic and its laws universal? Is there one ontology - a single world - to which all attempts at understanding must be considered to be directed? When we encounter apparently very different views of reality, how far can that be put down to a difference in conceptions of what needs explaining, or of what counts as an explanation, or to different preferred modes of reasoning or styles of inquiry? Do the notions of truth and belief represent reliable cross-cultural universals? In another area, what can ancient history teach us about today's social and political problems? Are the discourses of human nature and of human rights universally applicable? What political institutions do we need to help secure equity and justice within nation states and between them? Lloyd sets out to answer all these questions, and to argue that the study of the science and culture of ancient Greece and China provided a precious resource in order to advance a wealth of modern debates.

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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

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Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of his most important and influential articles from the last two decades to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focussing especially on science but including also medicine, mathematics, philosophy and mythology. Alongside papers that deal with technical issues in the interpretation of our sources, others raise strategic questions to do with the institutional framework of ancient science, the role of literacy in its development, and the underlying ontological and epistemological presuppositions of different groups of ancient investigators. Two of the articles appear here for the first time in English.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0860789934

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Magic, Reason, and Experience

Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Magic, Reason, and Experience

Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

This study of the origins and progress of Greek science focuses especially on the interaction between scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth century BC. It begins with an examination of how particular Greek authors deployed the category of "magic," sometimes attacking its beliefs and practices; these attacks are then related to their background in Greek medicine and philosophical thought. In his second chapter Lloyd outlines developments in the theory and practice of argument in Greek science and assesses their significance. He next discuses the progress of empirical research as a scientific tool from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Finally, he considers why the Greeks invented science, their contribution to its history, and the social, economic, ideological and political factors that had a bearing on its growth.

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0872205282

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Science, Folklore and Ideology

Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Science, Folklore and Ideology

Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority of the female sex on medical practice, pharmacology and anatomy. Anthropology is used to provide a comparative dimension to the discussion of ancent Greek popular beliefs.

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Bristol Classical Press

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Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections

Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture

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Demystifying Mentalities

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Demystifying Mentalities

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Professor Lloyd explores cultural diversity in terms of communication and not mentality.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521366801

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Polarity and Analogy

Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Polarity and Analogy

Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

The book's major parts, one on polarity and the other on analogy, introduce the reader to the patterns of thinking that are fundamental not only to Greek philosophy but also to classical civilization as a whole. As a leading classicist in his own right, Lloyd is an impeccable guide. His sophistication in adducing anthropological parallels to Greek models of polarity and analogy broadens his perspective, making him a forerunner in the study of what we are now used to calling semiotics. A striking example of Lloyd's approach is his re-examination of the dichotomy of Olympian and chthonian gods in ancient Greek world view, which surpasses the reductionist and pseudo-historical models of sky-gods and earth-goddesses that are still commonly invoked to account for polarities in Greek pantheon. "In the second part, dealing with analogy, three crucial metaphorical models for the universe turn out to be basis for a dazzlingly wide variety of scientific and philosophical perspectives. Each model is tested in the whole spectrum of Greek artistic, philosophical and scientific thought. This work is a treasure-house of insights for experts and non experts alike." --Gregory Nagy, Harvard University

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0872201406

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The Way and the Word

Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd,Nathan Sivin

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The Way and the Word

Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd,Nathan Sivin

The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication-each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority. By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.

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Yale University Press

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0300129165

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The Ambivalences of Rationality

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The Ambivalences of Rationality

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

Cross-cultural examination of notions and practices of rationality in ancient and modern societies, drawing on philosophy, ethnography and cognitive science.

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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science

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The Ideals of Inquiry

An Ancient History

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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The Ideals of Inquiry

An Ancient History

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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0198705603

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Aristotle

The Growth and Structure of His Thought

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

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Aristotle

The Growth and Structure of His Thought

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

Dr Lloyd writes for those who want to discover and explore Aristotle's work for themselves. He acts as mediator between Aristotle and the modern reader. The book is divided into two parts. The first tells the story of Aristotle's intellectual development as far as it can be reconstructured; the second presents the fundamentals of his thought in the main fields of inquiry which interested him: logic and metaphysics, physics, psychology, ethics, politics, and literary criticism. The final chapter considers the unity and coherence of Aristotle's philosophy, and records briefly his later influence on European thought. This is a concise and lucid account of the work of a difficult and profound thinker. Dr Lloyd's business is only with the essentials; but he does not shirk the difficulties which arise in their interpretation, nor does he invest Aristotle with a spurious modernity.

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Magic, Reason, and Experience

Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

By: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd

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Studies in the Origins and Development of Greek Science

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Science, Folklore and Ideology

Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece

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In the Grip of Disease

Studies in the Greek Imagination

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

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In the Grip of Disease

Studies in the Greek Imagination

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.

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The Growth and Structure of His Thought

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The Growth and Structure of His Thought

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Being, Humanity, and Understanding

Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

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Being, Humanity, and Understanding

Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times, he asks how far we are bound by the conceptual systems to which we belong, and explores topics such as ontology, morality, philosophy of language, and communication.

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Magic, Reason and Experience

Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

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Magic, Reason and Experience

Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. The starting point is an examination of how certain Greek authors deployed the category of 'magic' and attacked magical beliefs and practices, and these attacks are related to their complex background in Greek medicine and speculative thought. In his second chapter Dr Lloyd outlines the development, and assesses the significance, of the theory and practice of argument in early Greek science, and he follows this with a study of the development of empirical research. Finally the author confronts the question of why the Greeks invented science: what precisely was their contribution to science, and what social, economic, ideological and political factors had a bearing on the growth of science in Greece.

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Intelligence and Intelligibility

Cross-cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

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Intelligence and Intelligibility

Cross-cultural Studies of Human Cognitive Experience

By: G. E. R. Lloyd

G. E. R. Lloyd considers how we can resolve the tension that exists between an appreciation of the cognitive capacities that all humans share, and a recognition of the great variety in their manifestations in different individuals and groups--while avoiding the imposition of prior Western assumptions and concepts.

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