Download or read book Being, Humanity, and Understanding written by G. E. R. Lloyd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. E. R. Lloyd explores the amazing diversity of views that humans have held on being, humanity, and understanding. In a cross-cultural study that ranges from ancient to modern times, he asks how far we are bound by the conceptual systems to which we belong, and explores topics such as ontology, morality, philosophy of language, and communication.