From Africa to Zen (eBook, PDF)

An Invitation to World Philosophy
Redaktion: Solomon, Robert; Higgins, Kathleen M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India, Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers three philosophical traditions for the first time-Jewish, Buddhist, and South Pacific (MOori) philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216238195
• Artikelnr.: 75139095

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of numerous books and textbooks in philosophy, including From Rationalism to Existentialism, The Passions, and The Bully Culture. Kathleen M. Higgins, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, The Music of Our Lives, and Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science. Together, they have written A Short History of Philosophy, What Nietzsche Really Said, and edited World Philosophy: A Text with Readings.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Understanding Order: The Chinese Perspective
Chapter 2 Ways of Japanese Thinking
Chapter 3 Traditional American Indian Attitudes toward Nature
Chapter 4 Pre-Columbian and Modern Philosophical Perspectives in Latin
America
Chapter 5 Arabic Philosophy
Chapter 6 Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 7 Persian Philosophy
Chapter 8 The Myth of Authenticity: Personhood, Traditional Culture, and
African Philosophy
Chapter 9 Indian Philosophies
Chapter 10 Buddhist Philosophy
Chapter 11 Måori Philosophy
Chapter 12 Esoteric Philosophy