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EBOOK Being, Humanity, and Understanding
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191625961
EAN: 86D213CDEB
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Stron: 144
Data wydania: 2012
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G. E. R. Lloyd explores the variety of ideas and assumptions that humans have        entertained concerning three main topics: being, or what there is; humanity--what        makes a human being a human; and understanding, both of the world and of one        another. Amazingly diverse views have been held on these issues by different        individuals and collectivities in both ancient and modern times. Lloyd juxtaposes        the evidence available from ethnography and from the study of ancient societies,        both todescribe that diversity and to investigate the problems it poses. Many of the        ideas in question are deeply puzzling, even paradoxical, to the point where they        have often been described as irrational or frankly unintelligible. Many implicate        fundamental moral issues and value judgements, where again wemay seem to be faced        with an impossible task in attempting to arrive at a fair-minded evaluation. How far        does it seem that we are all the prisoners of the conceptual systems of the        collectivities to which we happen to belong? To what extent and in what        circumstances is it possible to challenge the basic concepts of such systems? Being,        Humanity, and Understanding examines these questions cross-culturally and seeks to        draw out the implications for the revisability of some of ourhabitual assumptions        concerning such topics as ontology, morality, nature, relativism,        incommensurability, the philosophy of language, and the pragmatics of        communication.

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