Comparative Essays in Early Greek and Chinese Rational Thinking
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A01=Jean-Paul Reding
Analogical Reasoning
ancient
Ancient China
ancient epistemology
Ancient Greece
Argumentative Analogies
Aristotelian Categories
Aristotle's Categories
Aristotle’s Categories
Author_Jean-Paul Reding
Axiomatic Method
canon
Category=QDHA
Category=QDHC
china
Chinese Philosophy
classical
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese Philosophy
comparative logic
Comparative Philosophy
conceptual analysis
cross-cultural rational thought origins
Diogenes
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Euthydemus 286C
gongsun
Gongsun Long
greece
Greek Language
Initial Postulate
Jiuzhang Suanshu
Kahn 1973a
language
linguistic relativism
Logica Docens
long
mohist
Mohist Canon
Nihilo Nihil
Nominal Sentences
ontology studies
philosophy
Salva Veritate
Sino-Hellenic philosophy
Term Hua
Tong Chang
Product details
- ISBN 9780754638032
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chinese rational thinking are one and the same phenomenon. Rather than stressing the extreme differences between these two cultures - as most other writings on these subjects - Reding looks for the parameters that have to be restored to see the similarities. Reding maintains that philosophy is like an unknown continent discovered simultaneously in both China and Greece, but from different starting-points. The book comprises seven essays moving thematically from conceptual analysis, logic and categories to epistemology and ontology, with an incursion in the field of comparative metaphorology. One of the book's main concerns is a systematic examination of the problem of linguistic relativism through many detailed examples.
Jean-Paul Reding
