A Companion to World Philosophies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631213279 ISBN 13: 9780631213277

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

This outstanding volume offers students, teachers and general readers a complete introductory survey of the major non-western philosophical traditions.

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Book Description:

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume offers a rich & sophisticated introduction to major non-western philosophical traditions.

From the Back Cover:

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume offers students, teachers and general readers a rich and sophisticated introduction to the major non-Western philosophical traditions - particularly Chinese, Indian, Buddhist and Islamic philosophies. African and Polynesian thinking are also covered by way of historical and contemporary survey articles.

The text is organized around a series of central topics concerning conceptions of reality and divinity, of causality, of truth, of the nature of rationality, of selfhood, of humankind and nature, of the good, of aesthetic values, and of social and political ideals. Outstanding scholars present essays that articulate the distinctive ways in which these specific problems have been formulated and addressed in the non-Western traditions against the background of their varied historical and cultural presuppositions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631213279
• ISBN 13: 9780631213277
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Deutsch Eliot, Bontekoe Ron