From Africa to Zen by Solomon, Robert C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction 1 - Understanding Order: The Chinese Perspective

MEANINGS OF ORDER THE PEOPLE OF THE HAN DISMANTLING THE STEREOTYPES NOTES

2 - Ways of Japanese Thinking

THE MAJOR SOURCES: SHINTO, CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISM THE WAY OF THE SWORD ARTS OF THE HAND NOH DRAMA: POETRY, MUSIC, DANCE PROJECTIONS IN A WESTERN MEDIUM: THE ART OF FILM MISHIMA’S ENDS NOTES

3 - Traditional American Indian Attitudes toward Nature

PROBLEMS OF UNITY AND METHOD THE WESTERN WORLDVIEW AS AN INTELLECTUAL FOIL AMERICAN INDIAN ANIMISM THE ETHICS OF THE MULTISPECIES SOCIETY THE PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN WORLDVIEW NOTES

4 - Pre-Columbian and Modern Philosophical Perspectives in Latin America

PRECOLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN COSMOLOGIES THE COLONIAL PERIOD THE MODERN PERIOD NOTES GLOSSARY

5 - Arabic Philosophy

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ISLAM ARABIC PHILOSOPHY NOTES

6 - Jewish Philosophy

EARLY JEWISH PHILOSOPHY MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY MOSES MAIMONIDES KABBALAH AND MYSTICISM MODERN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY KEY ISSUES IN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

7 - Persian Philosophy

PERSIAN HISTORY PERSIAN THOUGHT IN PRE-ISLAMIC TIMES PERSIAN POST-ISLAMIC THOUGHT THE PERIPATETIC SCHOOLS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC THEOLOGY NOTES

8 - The Myth of Authenticity: Personhood, Traditional Culture, and African Philosophy

THE “BLACK SOUL,” COLONIALISM, AND AUTHENTICITY PERSONHOOD IN TRADITIONAL AFRICAN CULTURE PLAYING WITH BLACK DOLLS: CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL AUTHENTICITY BREAKING THE BLACK DOLLS, BUT PLAYING WITH THE PIECES: A CRITIQUE OF CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL AUTHENTICITY CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL AUTHENTICITY AS RACIAL MYTH NOTES GLOSSARY OF YORUBA TERMS BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTORY TEXTS IN AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

9 - Indian Philosophies

A BRIEF HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY YOGA AND “ANALYSIS” EARLY BUDDHISM JAINISM MAHĀYĀNA BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHIES VEDANTA “EXEGESIS” THE MATERIALIST SKEPTICS ATOMISM AND REALIST “LOGIC” THE CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHIES APPENDIX A: GUIDE TO SANSKRIT PRONUNCIATION APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY OF SANSKRIT TERMS APPENDIX C: A CHRONOLOGY OF SELECTED WORKS AND AUTHORS GUIDE TO FURTHER READING

10 - Buddhist Philosophy as a Buddhist Practice

THE MIDDLE PATH AS COUNTERPHILOSOPHY THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AS PRACTICE BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AND CREATIVITY

11 - Ngå Whakaaro Måori: Måori Philosophy

MÅORI “PHILOSOPHY”? SOME BASIC CONCEPTS OF MAORI PHILOSOPHY MODERN DEVELOPMENTS CONCLUSION NOTES

12 - Esoteric Philosophy

ESOTERIC AND EXOTERIC IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY ESOTERICISM IN THE CHRISTIAN WEST ESOTERICISM IN THE RENAISSANCE AND MODERN WEST NOTES

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