Book contents
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Editions
- Contributors
- Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
- Part I Methodological Issues and Goals
- 1 Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
- 2 Comparing Comparisons
- 3 On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation
- Part II Philosophy and Religion
- Part III Art and Literature
- Part IV Mathematics and Life Sciences
- Part V Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
- Afterword
- Index
- References
3 - On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation
from Part I - Methodological Issues and Goals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2017
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Ancient Greece and China Compared
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Editions
- Contributors
- Introduction: Methods, Problems and Prospects
- Part I Methodological Issues and Goals
- 1 Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others
- 2 Comparing Comparisons
- 3 On the Very Idea of (Philosophical?) Translation
- Part II Philosophy and Religion
- Part III Art and Literature
- Part IV Mathematics and Life Sciences
- Part V Agriculture, Planning and Institutions
- Afterword
- Index
- References
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- Ancient Greece and China Compared , pp. 59 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018