Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy : : A Reader / / A. L. Macfie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Macfie, A. L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Albert, David H.,; Brobjer, Thomas H.,; Cook, Daniel J.,; Coward, Harold,; Eber, Irene,; Guy, Basil,; Halbfass, Wilhelm,; Lach, Donald F.,; May, Reinhard,; Mungello, David E.,; Nicholls, Moira,; Pliny Jacobson, Nolan,; Raghavan, Ellen M.,; Riepe, Dale,; Rosemont, Henry,; Sprung, Mervyn,; Taylor, Ronald,; Wood, Barry,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

The influence of East on West - of Eastern ideas on Western thought - has become an increasingly vexed issue in recent times. Opinion is divided between two main schools: those who believe that Oriental ideas have exercised a considerable influence on Western thought, and those who, for a variety of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Malebranche and Chinese Philosophy
• 2. The Pre-Established Harmony Between Leibniz and Chinese Thought
• 3. The Sinophilism of Christian Wolff (1679-1754)
• 4. Voltaire, Sinophile
• 5. The Possibility of Oriental Influence in Hume’s Philosophy
• 6. Herder and German Romanticism
• 7. Hegel
• 8. Schelling and Schopenhauer
• 9. The Influences of Eastern Thought on Schopenhauer’s Doctrine of the Thing-in-Itself
• 10. Emerson and Indian Philosophy
• 11. Thoreau’s India: The Impact of Reading in a Crisis
• 12. Thoreau’s Hindu Quotations in A Week
• 13. Nietzsche’s Trans-European Eye
• 14. Nietzsche and the Laws of Manu
• 15. Taoism and Jung: Synchronicity and the Self
• 16. Martin Buber and Taoism
• 17. Heidegger’s Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on his Work
• Bibliography
• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Index