Adversaries and Authorities by G E R Lloyd
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.-
That Noble Dream
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The Taming of Chance
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Faces of Degeneration
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Between Literature and Science
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Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
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Measurement in Psychology
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Toleration in Conflict
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The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
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Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy
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Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science
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Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 15002000
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Pluralism and the Personality of the State
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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
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Riches and Poverty
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Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom
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Philosophy in History
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
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Enlightenment and Religion
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The Idea of Luxury
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The Persistence of Party
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The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
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Irish Political Thought and the Union
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The State in Machiavelli
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The People's Two Powers
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Language and Civil Conflict in the Greco-Roman Tradition
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The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
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The History of the Arthasastra
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The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 19451968
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Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885
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The History of Political Thought in National Context
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Recovering Liberties
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Liberty Abroad
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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
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The Crisis of German Historicism
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
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The Constitutionalist Revolution
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Parliamentarism
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Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
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Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814-1851
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Liberal Values
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Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
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The Duel in Early Modern England
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Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism
'It is in fact a comparison of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophyThis is an important subject [and] … this is a book which everyone interested in anceint philosophy and science must read. Let us hope that Lloyd goes on to write many others on the same theme.' Greece and Rome
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521556958 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521556953 |
| Title | Adversaries and Authorities |
| Author | G E R Lloyd |
| Series | Ideas In Context |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1996-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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