Adventure of the Human Intellect

Notes on Contributors vii

Series Editor's Preface xi

Preface and Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Francesca Rochberg and Kurt A. Raaflaub

1 A Critique of the Cognitive-historical Thesis of The Intellectual Adventure 16
Francesca Rochberg

2 The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Revisiting a Classic 29
Peter Machinist

3 The World of Ancient Egyptian Thought 73
James P. Allen

4 On Speculative Thought in Ancient Mesopotamia 89
Benjamin R. Foster

5 Self, Substance, and Social Metaphysics: The Intellectual Adventures of Israel and Judah 105
Ryan Byrne

6 Ancient Greece: Man the Measure of All Things 127
Kurt A. Raaflaub

7 The Thought-World of Ancient Rome: A Delicate Balancing Act 149
Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan

8 Self, Cosmos, and Agency in Early China 167
Lisa Raphals

9 Vedic India: Thinking and Doing 185
Stephanie W. Jamison

10 "Chronosophy" in Classic Maya Thought 198
Stephen Houston

11 The Word, Sacrifice, and Divination: Aztec Man in the Realm of the Gods 216
Guilhem Olivier

12 Night Thoughts and Spiritual Adventures: Native North America 239
Peter Nabokov

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• Filosofia ocidental: Antiga, a C 500
• História das idéias

Ancient Egypt; Mesopotamia; Israel; Greece; and Rome; Early China; Vedic India; Maya; Aztecs; and native North Americans; chronosophy; sacrifice; divination; cosmology; archaeology; intellectual history; speculative thought; rational and abstract thinking; beginnings of philosophy; social relations and values; spiritual experiences; human and divine worlds