The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China

by Steven Shankman (Author)

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  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 poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth to the second century BCE.

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  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 poetry, history and philosophy from roughly the eighth to the second century BCE.