Global History of Philosophy Vol. 2: Han-Hellenistic Bactrain Period (250B.C.- A.D. 325) - Hardcover

John C. Plott

9788120804562: Global History of Philosophy Vol. 2: Han-Hellenistic Bactrain Period (250B.C.- A.D. 325)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8120804562 ISBN 13: 9788120804562

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the global history of philosophy. In this and subsequent volumes instead of the traditional division of western and non western philosophies each philosophy is seen in relation to global contemporaries.throughout Eurasia. Scholasticism should not be taken in the pejorative sense as the juggling of arguments by straw men, but in the sense of a challenge even in our own era to work for consistent and comprehensive systematic synthesis. All the ''older traditions'' need to be reinterpreted in terms of ''modern conditions''-which after all, is what the Eurasian scholastics of these centuries were doing for their own time.

As is true of the whole series, these volumes are a new way of exploring the accumulative wisdom of mankind, and in the process explode many of the ethnocentric stereotypes which still hinder intercultural communications and world peace through intercultural understanding.

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