Disciplines in the Making: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Elites, Learning, and Innovation

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2009)
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Abstract

We tend to assume that our map of the intellectual disciplines is valid cross-culturally. G. E. R. Lloyd challenges this in relation to eight main areas of human endeavour, namely philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science, by examining how the disciplines were conceived and developed in different times and places.

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What is Philosophy?

This chapter discusses the different concepts of philosophy developed in different modern European societies, and in various ancient ones: Greece, China, India, and Islam. It explores the sense in which non-literate societies raise and discuss philosophical questions, in relation to standa... see more

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