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G. E. R. Lloyd 出版社: Oxford University Press 副标题: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture 出版年: 2004-4-8 页数: 240 定价: USD 105.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780199270163
Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. 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 discipl...
Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. 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 convince us that the science and culture of ancient Greece and China provide precious resources to advance modern debates.
We shall have further occasions to insist on the actual complexities that confront the historian of ancient enquiries, complexities that stand in the way of attempts at grand generalizations, about how science started, how it developed, how indeed it had to develop. But let me end this discussion with a summary of my argument. Evidently there was no science as we know it today in ancient civilizations. Yet there were analogous ambitions—in relation to understanding, explaining, predicting a wide variety of phenomena. The task of the historian is to investigate the forms that those ambitions took, what stimulated or inhibited their growth, how the ancient enquirers themselves evaluated their work, how self-conscious they were about its status and goals and about the correct methods to be u... (查看原文)
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