Being, Humanity, and Understanding: Studies in Ancient and Modern Societies

Author:   G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   144
Publication Date:   12 July 2012
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Author:   G. E. R. Lloyd (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780199654727


ISBN 10:   0199654727
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   12 July 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Humanity between Gods and Beasts? 2: Error 3: Ancient Understandings Reassessed and the Consequences for Ontologies 4: Language and Audiences 5: Philosophical Implications Epilogue Glossary of Key Chinese Terms and Names Bibliography Index

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Being, Humanity, and Understanding wrestles with some of the most important and thorny questions in the philosophy of science as it bears on the humanities in general and the study of anthropology and history in particular Lloyds book is one of the best pleas I have read in recent years for the unremitting importance of the humanities. Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Being, Humanity, and Understanding is first and foremost a beautiful book. A specialist in Ancient Greece and classical China and a studious reader of ethnographic works on native peoples from numerous parts of the world, including Amazonia, Lloyd presents in clear and precise language a wide array of different expressions of human creativity in configuring worlds or, in other words, of elaborating ontologies. Aparecida Vilaca, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory


Lloyd is a genial Herodotus of modern academia, traveling widely, absorbing broadly and returning with marvels Paul Keyser, Aestimatio Lloyd's nuanced comprehension of the historiography of science studies is compellingly employed to unack previous misunderstandings and misreadings, while speaking to the future of the field. ... For the scholar of the history of science, Lloyd's study is an insightful and often philosophical examination of the nature of the human condition in ancient societies. Jessica Evans, BJHS Being, Humanity, and Understanding wrestles with some of the most important and thorny questions in the philosophy of science as it bears on the humanities in general and the study of anthropology and history in particular Lloyds book is one of the best pleas I have read in recent years for the unremitting importance of the humanities. Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Being, Humanity, and Understanding is first and foremost a beautiful book. A specialist in Ancient Greece and classical China and a studious reader of ethnographic works on native peoples from numerous parts of the world, including Amazonia, Lloyd presents in clear and precise language a wide array of different expressions of human creativity in configuring worlds or, in other words, of elaborating ontologies. Aparecida Vilaca, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory


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G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of nineteen books, including Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind (OUP, 2007) and Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation (OUP, 2009). He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983, and received the Sarton medal in 1987. Lloyd was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Kings in 1991, to Honorary Foreign Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, to the International Academy for the History of Science in 1997, to an Honorary Fellowship at Darwin in 2000, and to an Honorary D.Litt by the University of Athens in 2003. He was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997, and received the Kenyon Medal for Classical scholarship from the British Academy in 2007.

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