Interpreting across Boundaries : : New Essays in Comparative Philosophy / / ed. by Eliot Deutsch, Gerald James Larson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ames, Roger T.,; Chan, Wing-Tsit,; Cua, A. S.,; De Bary, Wm. Theodore,; Deutsch, Eliot,; Hartshorne, Charles,; Krishna, Daya,; Larson, Gerald James,; Mayeda, Sengaku,; Nakamura, Hajime,; Panikkar, Raimundo,; Potter, Karl H.,; Rosemont, Henry,; Scharfstein, Ben-Ami,; Smart, Ninian,; Staal, Frits,; Streng, Frederick J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Deutsch, Eliot,; Larson, Gerald James,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 889
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

This volume is a "state-of-the-art" assessment of comparative philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the field. While its primary focus is on gaining methodological clarity regarding the comparative enterprise of "interpreting across boundaries," the book also contains new substantive essays on Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and European thought. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, A. S. Cua, Eliot Deutsch, Charles Hartshorne, Daya Krishna, Gerald James Larson, Sengaku Mayeda, Hajime Nakamura, Raimundo Panikkar, Karl H. Potter, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Ninian Smart, Fritz Staal, and Frederick J. Streng.Comparative or cross-cultural philosophy can be seen as a relative newcomer to the field of philosophy. It has its antecedents in the emergence of comparative studies in nineteenth-century European intellectual history, as well as in the sequence of East-West Philosophers' Conferences at the University of Hawaii, which began in 1939. This book will prove to be of great significance in helping to define a field that is only now becoming fully self-conscious, methodologically and substantively, about its role and function in the larger enterprises of philosophy and comparative studies.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: The "Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other" -- Metaphor as Key to Understanding the Thought of Other Speech Communities -- Against Relativism -- Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought to Be -- The Contextual Fallacy -- Śaṅkara, Nāgārjuna, and Fa Tsang, with Some Western Analogues -- What Is Comparative Philosophy Comparing? -- The Meaning of the Terms 'Philosophy' and 'Religion' in Various Traditions -- Mechanisms of Self-Deception and True Awareness According to C. G. Jung and the Eight- Thousand-Line Perfection of Wisdom Sutra -- Knowledge and the Tradition Text in Indian Philosophy -- The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy -- Śaṅkara and Nārāyana Guru -- Is There Philosophy in Asia? -- Chu Hsi and World Philosophy -- Confucius and the Ontology of Knowing -- Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions -- Neoconfucianism as Traditional and Modern -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX