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Van de Mieroop, Marc.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Iraq -- Babylonia.
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Philosophy before the Greeks : the pursuit of truth in ancient Babylonia / Marc Van De Mieroop.
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Van de Mieroop, Marc.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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viii, 297 pages ; 25 cm
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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.
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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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