The Status of the Individual in East and West / / ed. by Charles A. Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bhattacharyya, Kalidas,; Chan, Wing-Tsit,; Chano, Tara,; Chun-I, T\x27ang,; Dasgupta, Surama,; Fang, Thome H.,; Hajime, Nakamura,; Hocking, William Ernest,; Ichirō, Hori,; Malalasekera, G. P.,; Masaaki, Kōsaka,; McKeon, Richard,; McMurrin, Sterling M.,; Mccarthy, Harold E.,; Mei, Y. P.,; Moore, Charles A.,; Murti, T. R. V.,; Nagley, Wlnfield E.,; Polin, Raymond,; Rahman, Fazlur,; Raju, P. T.,; Reale, Miguel,; Regamey, Constantin,; Saksena, S. K.,; Smith, John E.,; Strong, E. W.,; Suzuki, Daisetz T.,; Takeyoshi, Kawashima,; Tesshi, Furukawa,; Werkmeister, W. H.,; Wu, John C. H.,; Yoshifumi, Ueda,; Yu-Wei, Hsieh,
• HerausgeberIn: Moore, Charles A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (628 p.)

“Life is cheap in the Orient; in the West, the individual is more important than the society.” “Real democracy exists only in the West; Eastern governments are despotic.” Statements such as these, although not always worded in the same way, are cliches that have long been prevalent in the Western world and have reflected the basic misunderstanding and antagonism between the traditions of Eastern and Western thought.Confronting such beliefs as well as Oriental misconceptions about the West as Oriental misconceptions about the West was the task of the Fourth East-West Philosophers’ Conference held at the University of Hawai’i in 1964. Unlike the three preceding conferences (held in 1939, 1949, and 1959), the 1964 meeting chose one basic problem as its central theme: the comparative status of the individual in the major philosophical and cultural traditions of Asia and the West. One particular aspect of the overall problem was presented and discussed extensively in each of six sections: metaphysics, methodology, religion, ethics, social thought and institutions.This volume is composed primarily of the papers presented at the conference, containing also--in the form of questions and answers--some of the extensive, enlightening, and frequently controversial discussion that took place at formal and informal meetings, presenting papers and lectures were some thirty distinguished scholars and philosophers from India, China, japan, the United States, and Europe.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Greetings -- Introduction: The conference, the problem, the program -- Section I. Metaphysics -- The world and the individual in Chinese metaphysics -- The status of the individual in Indian metaphysics -- The status of the individual in Theravāda Buddhist philosophy -- The status of the individual in Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy -- A brief note on individuality in East and West -- Section II. Methodology -- The individual and the world in Chinese methodology -- Indian epistemology and the world and the individual -- Consciousness of the individual and the universal among the Japanese -- Knowledge, skepticism, and the individual -- Section III. Religion -- The individual in Chinese religions -- The world and the individual in Indian religious thought -- The status of the individual in Islam -- The appearance of individual self-consciousness in Japanese religions and its historical transformations -- The individual and the Judeo-Christian tradition -- Section IV. Ethics -- The status of the individual in Chinese ethics -- The individual in Indian ethics -- The individual in Japanese ethics -- The status of the person in Western ethics -- Section V. Social Thought and Practices -- The status of the individual in Chinese social thought and practice -- The individual in social thought and practice in India -- The status and role of the individual in Japanese society -- Searches for agreement by persuasion -- Section VI. Legal and Political Thought and Institutions -- The status of the individual in the political and legal traditions of old and new China -- The individual in the legal and political thought and institutions of India -- The status of the individual in the notion of law, right, and social order in Japan -- Legal status of individuals -- The individual in law and in legal philosophy in the West -- About the political status of the contemporary individual in the West -- Appendix -- Public Lectures -- The individual in American philosophy -- The individual and the universal in East and West -- The individual person in Zen -- Summary and Concluding Remarks -- The individual in East and West: review and synthesis -- Concluding remarks -- Who's Who -- Index