A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's "Odyssey", the ancient Chinese "Classic of Poetry", Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War", Sima Qian's "Records of the Historian", Plato's "Symposium", and Laozi's "Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi". The intention, through such juxtaposition, is to introduce the foundational texts of each tradition which continue to influence the majority of the world's population.
- ISBN10 1441155198
- ISBN13 9781441155191
- Publish Date 1 March 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Continuum
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/