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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
General Introduction: A Framework for Comparative Philosophy
Part 1: Metaphysics
1.1 Introduction: What Is Real or Reality?
1.2 Parmenides, The Way of Truth
1.3 Aristotle, Metaphysics
1.4 Rg Veda: Hymn to Creation
1.5 Atharva Veda: Hymn to Time
1.6 Upanisad: Īsa
1.7 Upanisad: Kena
1.8 Śamkara: Superimposition
1.9 Eliot Deutsch, “Brahman”
1.10 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
1.11 Charles Wei-Hsun Fu, “Lao Tzu’s Conception of Tao”
1.12 Chang Tsai, The Philosophy of Material Force
1.13 Nāgārjuna, Conditioning Causes and Nirvāna
1.14 Kitarō Nishida, “The True Nature of Reality”
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 2: Epistemology
2.1 Introduction: What Are the Nature and Sources of Knowledge?
2.2 Plato, The Nature of Knowledge (Theaetetus)
2.3 Plato, Theory of Recollection (Meno)
2.4 Gautama and Vātsyāyana, Means of True Cognition
2.5 Dharmarāja, Cognition Generated by a Sentence
2.6 Śrī Dharmakirti, Cognition
2.7 Al-Ghazāli, “Deliverance from Error”
2.8 René Descartes, Meditations
2.9 Huston Smith, “Western and Comparative Perspectives on Truth”
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 3: Ethics
3.1 Introduction: On What Principles Do I Judge Things Right and Wrong?
3.2 Gautama Buddha, The First Sermon
3.3 Plato, Euthyphro
3.4 Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
3.5 Confucius, The Analects
3.6 Mo Tzu, Universal Love
3.7 The Bhagavad Gītā: Action, Knowledge, and Devotion
3.8 Abul A’la Maududi, Political Theory of Islam
3.9 Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative
3.10 John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
3.11 Simone de Beauvoir, Ambiguity and Freedom
3.12 Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
3.13 Mahatma Gandhi, Ahimsā
3.14 Wing-tsit Chan, “Chinese and Western Interpretations of Jen” (Humanity)
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 4: Religion
4.1 Introduction: Does God Exist? What Is the Nature of God?
4.2 St. Anselm, The Ontological Argument
4.3 St. Thomas Aquinas, The Cosmological Argument
4.4 Wang Ch’ung, On Spontaneity and A Discussion of Death
4.5 The Qur’ān, The Conception of God in Islam
4.6 Sri Aurobindo, “Reality Omnipresent”
4.7 Kaiten Nukariya, “Zen Enlightenment”
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Part 5: Philosophical Anthropology
5.1 Introduction: What Is the Nature of Human Beings?
5.2 Mencius, Human Nature
5.3 Isma’īl Rāgī al Fārūqī, The Nature of Man in Islām
5.4 Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?”
5.5 Immanuel Kant, “Is the Human Race Continually Improving?”
5.6 Martin Heidegger, “The ‘Who’ of Dasein”
5.7 Rabindranath Tagore, “Man’s Nature”
5.8 Takie Sugiyama Lebra, “Self in Japanese Culture”
Study Questions
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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