Essays in East-West Philosophy : : An Attempt at World Philosophical Synthesis / / Charles A. Moore.

In the modern world, provincialism in reflective thinking is dangerous, possibly tragic. If philosophy is to fulfill one of its main functions - that of guiding the leaders of mankind toward a better world - its perspective must become worldwide and comprehensive in fact as well as in theory. This,...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • An Attempt at World Philosophical Synthesis
  • PART I. METHODOLOGY
  • Chapter I. Reason and Intuition in Buddhist Philosophy
  • Chapter II. Epistemological Methods in Chinese Philosophy
  • Chapter III. Epistemological Methods in Indian Philosophy
  • Chapter IV. Concentration and Meditation as Methods in Indian Philosophy
  • Chapter V. Basic Problems of Method in Harmonizing Eastern and Western Philosophy
  • Chapter VI 124 Empirico-Naturalism and World Understanding
  • Chapter VII. Methodology and Epistemology, Oriental and Occidental
  • PART II. METAPHYSICS
  • Chapter VIII. Syntheses in Chinese Metaphysics
  • Chapter IX. Some Aspects of Reality as Taught by Theravada (Hinayana) Buddhism
  • Chapter X. Buddhism of the One Great Vehicle (Mahayana)
  • Chapter XI. Metaphysical Theories in Indian Philosophy
  • Chapter XII The Nature of Brahman in the Upanisads—The Advaita View
  • Chapter XIII. Certain Basic Concepts of Western Realism and Their Relation to Oriental Thought
  • Chatper XIV. Integration
  • Chapter XV. Main Contrasts Between Eastern and Western Philosophy
  • PART III. ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
  • Chapter XVI. The Basis of Social, Ethical, and Spiritual Values in Chinese Philosophy
  • Chapter XVII. The Basis of Social, Ethical, and Spiritual Values in Indian Philosophy
  • Chapter XVIII. The Philosophical Basis of Indian Legal and Social Systems
  • Chapter XIX. Comparative Strength of Life-Ideals in Eastern and Western Cultures
  • Chapter XX. The Theory of Types and the Verification of Ethical Theories
  • Chapter XXI. Western Theories of Value
  • Chapter XXII. Metaphysics and Ethics in East and West
  • PART IV. CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS
  • Chapter XXIII. Reports of the Conference Seminars
  • WHO'S WHO
  • INDEX