Classical, Modern, and Humane
Author | : David Hawkes |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789622013544 |
A collection of essays, originally published between 1955 and 1983.
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Author | : David Hawkes |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789622013544 |
A collection of essays, originally published between 1955 and 1983.
Author | : Franklin Perkins |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-05-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0253011760 |
That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse.
Author | : John Minford |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 1252 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231096775 |
Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.
Author | : Jan Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199554595 |
A collection of essays by a team of distinguished international contributors concerned with how Classic - mainly Greek and Latin but also Arabic and Portuguese - texts become present in later cultures; how they are passed on, received and affect over time and space, and how they resonate in the modern.
Author | : Frank Kraushaar |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cross-cultural studies |
ISBN | : 9783034300407 |
Eastwards is a collection of essays each of whom focuses on a special aspect or on an episode within the cross-cultural narrative that imposes on our minds the terms «West» and «East». The volume assembles seventeen essays by eighteen authors divided into three chapters. Being the outcome of the first international conference for East Asian studies that was held in the Baltic states in 2008 at the University of Latvia in Riga, the volume contains not only contributions by scholars from Vilnius, Tallinn and Riga but also rather rare topics like critiques of translation from Japanese and Classical Chinese into Latvian. The book contains also an essay on the life and personality of an almost neglected Baltic «pioneer» in Manchuria.
Author | : Stephen T. Newmyer |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135042853 |
Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency, in modern philosophical treatises, in modern animal behavioral studies, and in animal rights literature, to argue both for and against the position that human beings are special and unique because of one or another attribute or skill that they are believed to possess. Some of the claims of man’s unique endowments have in recent years become the subject of intensive investigation by cognitive ethologists carried out in non-laboratory contexts. The debate is as lively now as in classical times, and, what is of particular note, the examples and methods of argumentation used to prove one or another position on any issue relating to the unique status of human beings that one encounters in contemporary philosophical or ethological literature frequently recall ancient precedents. This is the first book-length study of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos in classical literature, not restricting its analysis to Greco-Roman claims of man’s intellectual uniqueness, but including classical assertions of man’s physiological and emotional uniqueness. It supplements this analysis of ancient manifestations with an examination of how the commonplace survives and has been restated, transformed, and extended in contemporary ethological literature and in the literature of the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Author Stephen T. Newmyer demonstrates that the anthropocentrism detected in Greek applications of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos is not only alive and well in many facets of the current debate on human-animal relations, but that combating its negative effects is a stated aim of some modern philosophers and activists.