Spiv v. Gentleman

Jonathan Barnes

  • The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece by Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin
    Yale, 348 pp, £25.00, February 2003, ISBN 0 300 09297 0

Already hailed in America as ‘climactic’ and ‘monumental’, The Way and the Word is the product of a collaboration between an eminent Hellenist and an expert Sinologist. It compares ancient Greek thought and ancient Chinese thought. The period of comparison is officially the six centuries from about 400 BC to about 200 AD, but in fact a considerable part of the Greek material is taken from the fifth century BC. Although the area of comparison is officially the physical sciences, together with the ‘physical’ part of philosophy, from which ethics and logic are excluded, a substantial part of the Chinese material deals with political and moral reflections.

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Vol. 25 No. 20 · 23 October 2003 » Jonathan Barnes » Spiv v. Gentleman (print version)
Pages 24-25 | 3184 words