Larson / Deutsch Interpreting across Boundaries

New Essays in Comparative Philosophy
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5927-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This volume is a "state-of-the-art" assessment of comparative philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the field. While its primary focus is on gaining methodological clarity regarding the comparative enterprise of "interpreting across boundaries," the book also contains new substantive essays on Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and European thought. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, A. S. Cua, Eliot Deutsch, Charles Hartshorne, Daya Krishna, Gerald James Larson, Sengaku Mayeda, Hajime Nakamura, Raimundo Panikkar, Karl H. Potter, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Ninian Smart, Fritz Staal, and Frederick J. Streng.

Comparative or cross-cultural philosophy can be seen as a relative newcomer to the field of philosophy. It has its antecedents in the emergence of comparative studies in nineteenth-century European intellectual history, as well as in the sequence of East-West Philosophers' Conferences at the University of Hawaii, which began in 1939. This book will prove to be of great significance in helping to define a field that is only now becoming fully self-conscious, methodologically and substantively, about its role and function in the larger enterprises of philosophy and comparative studies.

Originally published in 1988.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Larson, Gerald James

Deutsch, Eliot

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
PREFACE, pg. vii
Introduction: The “Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other”, pg. 1
Metaphor as Key to Understanding the Thought of Other Speech Communities, pg. 19
Against Relativism, pg. 36
Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought to Be, pg. 71
The Contextual Fallacy, pg. 84
Sankara, Nagarjuna, and Fa Tsang, with Some Western Analogues, pg. 98
What Is Comparative Philosophy Comparing?, pg. 116
The Meaning of the Terms ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Religion’ in Various Traditions, pg. 137
Mechanisms of Self-Deception and True Awareness According to C. G. Jung and the Eight- Thousand-Line Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, pg. 152
Knowledge and the Tradition Text in Indian Philosophy, pg. 165
The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy, pg. 174
Sankara and Narayana Guru, pg. 184
Is There Philosophy in Asia?, pg. 203
Chu Hsi and World Philosophy, pg. 230
Confucius and the Ontology of Knowing, pg. 265
Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions, pg. 280
Neoconfucianism as Traditional and Modern, pg. 294
CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 311
INDEX, pg. 313