Engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilizations, which is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we continue to face today.
Keywords: antiquity, China, democracy, Greece, human nature, human rights, logic, reality, science, truth
| Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199270163 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005 | DOI:10.1093/0199270163.001.0001 |