Philosophical Questions: East and WestBina Gupta, Jitendra Nath Mohanty Philosophical Questions: East and West is an anthology of source material for use in comparative courses in philosophy, religion, and the humanities. The readings--derived from the great works of the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, and Western intellectual traditions--are presented as answers to some of the most enduring questions in philosophy. Discussions are arranged under the headings of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and the nature of human being. Each section begins with an introductory essay in which the leading questions and their responses from different traditions are presented in overview.Philosophical Questions raises the central questions of comparative philosophy and eloquently argues the need for discarding familiar cliches to make a fresh, unprejudiced study of these traditions. |
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action Advaita Vedānta ahimsa Allah answer appears argue argument Aristotle asked become believe body Brahman Buddhist called cause Chapter Chinese Chinese philosophy cognition conceived concept Confucian Confucius consciousness Cosmological Argument Dasein desire divine doctrine duty earth enlightenment entity epistemology eternal ethics Euth Euthyphro evil existence experience fact false feeling freedom give gods happiness Heaven human nature idea individual inner Islamic Japanese Kant kind knowledge Lao Tzu Mahāyāna Master material force means Mencius metaphysical mind Mo Tzu moral nirvana non-being non-violence object one's ontological Parmenides perception person philosophy piety Plato pleasure possess possible present-at-hand pure question Qur'an reality realize reason regard religion Samkara social Socrates soul spirit spontaneity substance suppose Taoist Theaetetus theory things thought tion translated true truth Tzu's understand universal love Upanisads utilitarian Vedānta virtue Western Wing-tsit Chan words