TY - BOOK ID - 32056439 TI - Aristotle in China AU - Wardy, Robert AU - Needham Research Institute. PY - 2000 VL - 2 SN - 9780521771184 9780511483097 9780521028479 0521028477 0521771188 1280421215 0511483090 0511327471 0511173296 0511152353 0511049447 1107119189 0511017553 9780511017551 9780511049446 9781280421211 9786610421213 6610421218 0511034202 9780511034206 9780511152351 9781107119185 9780511327476 9780511173295 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy, Chinese. KW - S12/0215 KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Philosophy of language KW - Chinese language. KW - Language and languages KW - Sino-Tibetan languages KW - Chinese philosophy KW - Philosophy. KW - Aristotle. KW - Chinese language KW - Philosophy, Chinese KW - S12/0800 KW - S12/0820 KW - Philosophy KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Foreign philosophy in China KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Philosophie ancienne KW - Philosophie chinoise KW - Chinois (Langue) KW - Langage et langues KW - Philosophie KW - #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap KW - #KVHA:Taalfilosofie KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32056439 AB - In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an ('The Investigation of the Theory of Names'), a seventeenth-century Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories. Throughout his investigation, Wardy addresses important questions. Do the basis structures of language shape the major thought-patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? What factors, from grammar and logic to cultural and religious expectations, influence translation? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact? His answers will fascinate philosphers, Sinologists, classicists, linguists and anthropologists, and will make a major contribution to the existing literature. ER -