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

List of contributors

ix

Preface

xii

Guide to pronunciation

xv

PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Chinese philosophy: a synoptic view

3

(21)

Tu Weiming

A history of Indian philosophy

24

(25)

J. N. Mohanty

Classical Polynesian thinking

49

(14)

John Charlot

African philosophy: a historical overview

63

(15)

D. A. Masolo

A survey of Buddhist thought

78

(21)

Ninian Smart

Islamic philosophy: an overview

99

(40)

Tamara Albertini

PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS

The Chinese tradition

Ideas of the good in chinese philosophy

139

(9)

Shun Kwong-Loi

The Chinese conception of selfhood

148

(7)

Roger T. Ames

Human beings and nature in traditional Chinese thought

155

(10)

P. J. Ivanhoe

Causation in Chinese philosophy

165

(9)

Carine Defoort

Chinese socio-political ideals

174

(11)

Henry Rosemont

Reality and Divinity in Chinese philosophy

185

(16)

Chung-Ying Cheng

Reason and principle in Chinese philosophy: an interpretation of li

201

(13)

A. S. Cua

The way and the truth

214

(11)

David L. Hall

Chinese aesthetics

225

(12)

Stephen J. Goldberg

The Indian tradition

Socio-political thought in classical India

237

(11)

Daya Krishna

Indian conceptions of reality and divinity

248

(11)

Gerald James Larson

Rationality in Indian philosophy

259

(20)

Arindam Chakrabarti

Humankind and nature in Indian philosophy

279

(11)

John M. Koller

The idea of the good in Indian thought

290

(14)

J. N. Mohanty

Indian aesthetics: a philosophical survey

304

(20)

Edwin Gerow

The self and person in Indian philosophy

324

(10)

Stephen H. Phillips

Truth in Indian philosophy

334

(15)

Amita Chatterjee

The Buddhist tradition

Ideas of the good in Buddhist philosophy

349

(11)

P. D. Premasiri

Reflections on social and political ideals in Buddhist philosophy

360

(10)

John Ross Carter

Causality in Buddhist philosophy

370

(11)

G. C. Pande

Humankind and nature in Buddhism

381

(11)

Knut A. Jacobsen

Buddhist reality and divinity

392

(8)

Kenneth K. Inada

The Buddhist concept of self

400

(10)

Thomas P. Kasulis

Rationality in Buddhist thought

410

(10)

David Bastow

Buddhist perspectives on ontological truth

420

(17)

Matthew Kapstein

The Islamic tradition

Truth and Islamic thought

437

(11)

Andrey Smirnov

Islamic aesthetics

448

(12)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Reality and divinity in Islamic philosophy

460

(12)

Josep Puig Montada

Selfhood/personhood in Islamic philosophy

472

(12)

John Walbridge

The concept of the good in Islamic philosophy

484

(9)

Mourad Wahba

Causality and Islamic thought

493

(11)

Andrey Smirnov

Rationality in Islamic philosophy

504

(13)

Majid Fakhry

PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION

Contemporary Chinese philosophy

517

(6)

Roger T. Ames

Contemporary Japanese philosophy

523

(8)

Shigenori Nagatomo

The contemporary Indian situation

531

(11)

Bina Gupta

Contemporary Polynesian thinking

542

(6)

John Charlot

Current trends and perspectives in African philosophy

548

(16)

Segun Gbadegesin

Contemporary Buddhist philosophy

564

(9)

Michiko Yusa

Contemporary Islamic thought

573

(8)

Marietta Stepaniants

Index

581

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