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    Philosophy before the Greeks : the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop.

    By: Van de Mieroop, MarcMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]Description: viii, 297 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691157184; 0691157189Subject(s): Philosophy, Babylonian | Knowledge, Theory of -- Iraq -- Babylonia | Knowledge, Theory of | Philosophy, Babylonian | Middle East -- Babylonia | Kunskapsteori | Filosofi | BabylonienDDC classification: 181/.6 LOC classification: B146 | .V36 2016
    Contents:
    Part I. An essay in Babylonian epistemology -- At the time of creation -- Part II. The order of things (les mots et les choses) -- Word lists : a very short history -- Constructing reality -- Part III. Writings of the gods -- Omen lists in Babylonian culture -- The structure of knowledge of the universe -- Part IV. The word of the law -- Of ancient codes -- The philosopher-king -- Part V.A Babylonian epistemology -- Babylonian epistemology in history -- The conceptual autonomy of Babylonian epistemology.
    Summary: In this intellectual history, historian of the ancient Near East Marc Van de Mieroop argues that, for three millennia preceding the Greeks, there were Babylonian philosophers who systematically studied knowledge--about language, divination, and the law--using a coherent system of logic rooted in practices of cuneiform script.--From publisher description.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-289) and index.

    Part I. An essay in Babylonian epistemology -- At the time of creation -- Part II. The order of things (les mots et les choses) -- Word lists : a very short history -- Constructing reality -- Part III. Writings of the gods -- Omen lists in Babylonian culture -- The structure of knowledge of the universe -- Part IV. The word of the law -- Of ancient codes -- The philosopher-king -- Part V.A Babylonian epistemology -- Babylonian epistemology in history -- The conceptual autonomy of Babylonian epistemology.

    In this intellectual history, historian of the ancient Near East Marc Van de Mieroop argues that, for three millennia preceding the Greeks, there were Babylonian philosophers who systematically studied knowledge--about language, divination, and the law--using a coherent system of logic rooted in practices of cuneiform script.--From publisher description.

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