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Title

Philosophical questions : East and West / edited by Bina Gupta and J.N. Mohanty.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Gupta, Bina, 1947-
• Mohanty, J. N. (Jitendra Nath), 1928-

Description

xxiv, 464 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Philosophy and the global context

Uniform Title

Philosophy and the global context

Subject

• Philosophy, Comparative
• East and West
• Vergleichende Philosophie
• Filosofie
• Niet-westerse wereld

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

General Introduction: A Framework for Comparative Philosophy -- pt. 1. Metaphysics. 1.1. Introduction: What Is Real or Reality? 1.2. The Way of Truth / Parmenides. 1.3. Metaphysics / Aristotle. 1.4. Rg Veda: Hymn to Creation. 1.5. Atharva Veda: Hymn to Time. 1.6. Upanisad: Isa. 1.7. Upanisad: Kena. 1.8. Samkara: Superimposition. 1.9. "Brahman" / Eliot Deutsch. 1.10. Tao Te Ching / Lao Tzu. 1.11. "Lao Tzu's Conception of Tao" / Charles Wei-Hsun Fu. 1.12. The Philosophy of Material Force / Chang Tsai. 1.13. Conditioning Causes and Nirvana / Nagarjuna. 1.14. "The True Nature of Reality" / Kitaro Nishida -- pt. 2. Epistemology. 2.1. Introduction: What Are the Nature and Sources of Knowledge? 2.2. The Nature of Knowledge (Theaetetus) / Plato. 2.3. Theory of Recollection (Meno) / Plato. 2.4. Means of True Cognition / Gautama and Vatsyayana. 2.5. Cognition Generated by a Sentence / Dharmaraja. 2.6. Cognition / Sri Dharmakirti. 2.7. "Deliverance from Error" / Al-Ghazali. 2.8. Meditations / Rene Descartes. 2.9. "Western and Comparative Perspectives on Truth" / Huston Smith -- pt. 3. Ethics. 3.1. Introduction: On What Principles Do I Judge Things Right and Wrong? 3.2. The First Sermon / Gautama Buddha. 3.3. Euthyphro / Plato. 3.4. Nichomachean Ethics / Aristotle. 3.5. The Analects / Confucius. 3.6. Universal Love / Mo Tzu. 3.7. The Bhagavad Gita: Action, Knowledge, and Devotion. 3.8. Political Theory of Islam / Abul A'la Maududi. 3.9. The Categorical Imperative / Immanuel Kant. 3.10. Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill. 3.11. Ambiguity and Freedom / Simone de Beauvoir. 3.12. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr. 3.13. Ahimsa / Mahatma Gandhi. 3.14. "Chinese and Western Interpretations of Jen" (Humanity) / Wing-tsit Chan -- pt. 4. Religion. 4.1. Introduction: Does God Exist? What Is the Nature of God? 4.2. The Ontological Argument / St. Anselm. 4.3. The Cosmological Argument / St. Thomas Aquinas. 4.4. On Spontaneity and A Discussion of Death / Wang Ch'ung. 4.5. The Conception of God in Islam / The Qur'an. 4.6. "Reality Omnipresent" / Sri Aurobindo. 4.7. "Zen Enlightenment" / Kaiten Nukariya -- pt. 5. Philosophical Anthropology. 5.1. Introduction: What Is the Nature of Human Beings? 5.2. Human Nature / Mencius. 5.3. The Nature of Man in Islam / Isma'il Ragi al Faruqi. 5.4. "What Is Enlightenment?" / Immanuel Kant. 5.5. "Is the Human Race Continually Improving?" / Immanuel Kant. 5.6. "The 'Who' of Dasein" / Martin Heidegger. 5.7. "Man's Nature" / Rabindranath Tagore. 5.8. "Self in Japanese Culture" / Takie Sugiyama Lebra.

ISBN

• 0847692841
• 9780847692842
• 084769285X
• 9780847692859

LCCN

99042372

OCLC

• ocm42080201
• 42080201
• SCSB-9466079

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library