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
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.
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 Vilaça, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory*
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