Book ID: CBB001552564

Being, Humanity, and Understanding: Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies (2012)

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Lloyd, G. E. R. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 136 pp.
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Weinberg, Steven
Stainton, Robert J.
Sabino Illecito
Paolo Vidali
Denise Bottmann
Boscarino, Giuseppe
Concepts
Philosophy
Cross-cultural comparison
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Revolutions in science
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of Language
Time Periods
Modern
Ancient
Early modern
Medieval
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Places
Europe
Greece
China
Cambodia
Ukraine
Italy
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