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Sun-Tzu's Art of War is Perhaps the most important book ever
written about warfare. It can be used and adapted in every facet of
your life. This book explains when and how to go to war, as well as
when not to. The wisdom of the ages is distilled here, and no one
has ever written a book about war that has become more important or
replaced or topped the knowledge in this book. Niccolo Machiavelli
considered his Art of War to be his greatest achievement. Here you
will learn how to recruit, train, motivate, and discipline an army.
You will learn the difference between strategy and tactics.
Machiavelli does a masterful job of breaking down and analyzing
historic battles. These two books of military knowledge belong side
by side on every book shelf, and now you can have them in one
volume as East meets West.
This is the most important book ever written about warfare and
conflict. Lionel Giles' translation is the definitive edition. The
Art of War can be used and adapted in every facet of your life.
This book explains when and how to go to war, as well as when not
to. Learn how to win any conflict whether it be on the battlefield
or in the boardroom. This deluxe edition contains two versions of
The Art of War. The first has no commentary so that you can immerse
yourself directly in Sun Tzu's work. The second version includes
Lionel Giles' indispensable commentary.
An unabridged edition to include: Wherein I Bow to the Reader - A
Prelude to the Quest - A Magician Out of Egypt - I Meet A Messiah -
The Anchorite of the Adyar River - The Yoga Which Conquers Death -
The Sage Who Never Speaks - With The Spiritual Head of South India
- The Hill of the Holy Beacon - Among The Magicians And Holy Men -
The Wonder-Worker of Benares - Written in the Stars - The Garden of
the Lord - At the Parsee Messiah's Headquarters - A Strange
Encounter - In a Jungle Hermitage - Tablets of Forgotten Truth
To the horrors of war and genocide in the twentieth century
there were witnesses, among them Hermann Cohen, Emmanuel Levinas,
Ernst Bloch, Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, Walter
Benjamin, Martin Buber, and Hans Jonas. All defined themselves as
Jews and philosophers. Their intellectual concerns and worldviews
often in conflict, they nevertheless engaged in fruitful
conversation: through the dialogue between Zionist activism and
heterodox forms of Marxism, in the rediscovery of hidden traditions
of Jewish history, at the intersection of ethics and metaphysics.
They shared a common hope for a better, messianic future and a deep
interest in and reliance on the cultural sources of the Jewish
tradition.
In this magisterial work, Pierre Bouretz explores the thought of
these great Jewish philosophers, taking a long view of the tenuous
survival of German-Jewish metaphysical, religious, and social
thought during the crises and catastrophes of the twentieth
century. With deep passion and sound scholarship, Bouretz
demonstrates the universal significance of this struggle in
understanding the present human condition. The substantial and
established influence of the book's subjects only serves to confirm
this theory.
Profoundly learned and amply documented, "Witnesses for the
Future" explains how these important philosophers came to
understand the promise of a Messiah. Its significant bearing on a
number of fields--including religious studies, literary criticism,
philosophy of history, political theory, and Jewish
studies--encourages scholars to rethink and reassess the
intellectual developments of the past 100 years.
Although George Lukacs's work has been widely read and reviewed,
and has exerted a significant influence on recent international
discussions of literature, philosophy, and Marxism, no
comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography of the wide range of
critical response to his writings has appeared in book form to
date. This bibliography contains in Part I books devoted to Lukacs,
including all available reviews, and the books are classified by
language. Part II lists dissertations and theses, and reproduces
the text in Dissertation Abstracts International when available.
Part III includes essays and articles devoted to Lukacs, and these
also are classified by language. Part IV lists items by proper
names. It includes material in which Lukacs is being compared, or
contrasted with other major figures in philosophy, literary theory
and criticism, aesthetics and Marxism. Late entries are included in
the addendum, and author and editor indexes also are included.
The Moon Points Back comprises essays by both established scholars
in Buddhist and Western philosophy and young scholars contributing
to cross-cultural philosophy. It continues the program of Pointing
at the Moon (Oxford University Press, 2009), integrating the
approaches and insights of contemporary logic and analytic
philosophy and those of Buddhist Studies to engage with Buddhist
ideas in a contemporary voice. This volume demonstrates
convincingly that integration of Buddhist philosophy with
contemporary analytic philosophy and logic allows for novel
understandings of and insights into Buddhist philosophical thought.
It also shows how Buddhist philosophers can contribute to debates
in contemporary Western philosophy and how contemporary
philosophers and logicians can engage with Buddhist material. The
essays in the volume focus on the Buddhist notion of emptiness
(sunyata), exploring its relationship to core philosophical issues
concerning the self, the nature of reality, logic, and
epistemology. The volume closes with reflections on methodological
issues raised by bringing together traditional Buddhist philosophy
and contemporary analytic philosophy. This volume will be of
interest to anyone interested in Buddhist philosophy or
contemporary analytic philosophy and logic. But it will also be of
interest to those who wish to learn how to bring together the
insights and techniques of different philosophical traditions.
Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods
to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of
anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and
cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study
world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western
philosophies. For instance, one of the most widely used textbooks
used in introductory courses on religious studies, introduces major
theoreticians such as Edward Burnett Tylor, James Frazer, Sigmund
Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, William
James, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz. Their theories
are based on Western philosophy. In contrast, in Indic
philosophical systems, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, one
of the common views on reality is that the world both within one
self and outside is a flow with nothing permanent, both the
observer and the observed undergoing constant transformation. This
volume is based on such innovative ideas coming from different
Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods
in religious studies.
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of
the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a
serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good
with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the
Tao—the basic principle of the universe.Stephen Mitchell's
bestselling version has been widely acclaimed as a gift to
contemporary culture.
This Key Concept pivot explores the trajectory of the semantic
generation and evolution of two core concepts of ancient Chinese
Confucianism, 'Zhong' (middle) and 'Zhongyong' (golden mean). In
the pre-Qin period, Confucius advocated 'middle line' and 'golden
mean' as the highest standards for gentlemanly behaviour and
culture. In The Doctrine of the Mean the Confucian classic of the
late Warring States Period, 'middle' obtained the ontological
meaning of 'great fundamental virtues of the world', due to the
influence of Taoism and Yinyang School. It became not only the norm
of human behaviours, but also the law governing the operation of
heaven and earth. Since then, idealist Confucian scholars of the
Song and Ming dynasties have developed the meaning of 'middle' from
the perspective of the relationships between heaven and man, a
fundamental norm of Confucian ethics.
This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture
in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from
comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers a variety
of topics concerning the contemporary significance of Chinese
culture in its philosophical, literary and artistic manifestations,
including literature, film, performing arts, creative media,
linguistics, translations and philosophical ideas. The book
explores the reception of Chinese culture in different geographic
locations and how the global reception of Chinese culture contrasts
with the local Chinese community. The chapters collectively cover
gender studies and patriarchal domination in Chinese literature in
comparison to the world literature, explorations on translation of
Chinese culture in the West, Chinese studies as an academic
discipline in the West, and Chinese and Hong Kong films and
performances in the global context. The book is an excellent
resource for both scholars and students interested in the
development of Chinese culture on the global stage in the 21st
Century.
The Upanishads are among the source books of the Hindu faith, being
the concluding portion of the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, also the
Vedanta. This selection of translations by Swami Nikhilananda
contains the Svetasvatara, Prasna and Mandukya Upanishads together
with a special contribution to Western understanding of these
important books in the form of a noteworthy essay on Hindu Ethics.
Translated from the Sanskrit with an Introduction embodying a study
of Hindu Ethics, and with Notes and Explantions based on the
Commentary of Sri Sankaracharya, the great Eighth-Century
Philosopher and Saint of India. Contents Include: Svetasvatara
Upanishad - Prasna Upanishad - Mandukya Upanishad
This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical
theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to
understand his contribution against the developments within the
preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate
his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a
critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna's method of
"teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his
account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended
composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a
principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul.
Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian
conception of place against the strident criticism of his
predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of
void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna's account
of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking
into account the entire range of Avicenna's major writings, this
study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of
natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in
particular. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS - De
Gruyter Prize (Kulturpreis Bayern) in the Study of Islam and the
Muslim World and the Iran World Award for Book of the Year (2020).
This book explores the Confucian-Christian dialogue in Korea
through a comparative study of the cosmologies of Alfred North
Whitehead (1861-1947), the founder of process philosophy, and Yi
Yulgok (1536-1584), the great scholar of Korean Neo-Confucianism.
Although their philosophical traditions are different, Yulgok and
Whitehead's perspectives on the universe were very similar. This
study argues that Whitehead's theory of eternal object-actual
entity has affinities with Yulgok's theory of principle-material
force. Their two theories, both based on reciprocal dialectical
interrelationships, view the world as a cosmos characterized by the
process of becoming. Accordingly, Whitehead's panentheistic
interpretation of the God-world relationship correlates with
Yulgok's Neo-Confucian notion of how the Great Ultimate relates to
material force. These two concepts suggest a balanced structure of
God and the world and offer insights into encouraging
interreligious spirituality in Korea.
This book argues that a general understanding of traditional
Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its
truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese
philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven,
knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling, reflect a pursuit of
an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized by
the thought mode uniting man and nature.This book also discusses
the anti-traditionalism of the May Fourth Movement, explaining that
the true value of "sagacity theory" in traditional Chinese
philosophy, especially in Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming
dynasties, lies in its insights into universal life. In addition,
existing ideas, issues, terminologies, concepts, and logic of
Chinese philosophical thought were actually shaped by Western
philosophy. It is necessary to be alienated from traditional status
for the creation of a viable "Chinese philosophy." "Modern Chinese
philosophy" in the 1930s and 1940s was comprised of scholarly work
that characteristically continued rather than followed the
traditional discourse of Chinese philosophy. That is to say, in the
process of studying and adapting Western philosophy, Chinese
philosophers transformed Chinese philosophy from traditional to
modern.In the end of the book, the author puts forward the idea of
a "New Axial Age." He emphasizes that the rejuvenation of Chinese
culture we endeavor to pursue has to be deeply rooted in our
mainstream culture with universal values incorporating cultures of
other nations, especially the cultural essence of the West.
This book investigates the central metaphysics and epistemology of
Advaita. Although the vastness of Advaita literature has grown to
immense proportions, there has been a glaring lacuna in unraveling
its philosophical, theological and religious implications. This
volume undertakes a thematic search on the conception of Atman in
an all-important Advaitic text, the Vivekacudamani , and other
supportive texts of the same genre. Walter Menezes aims to revive
Advaita as a sound philosophical system by driving away the cloud
of negativity associated with it, thereby opening a new chapter in
the history of Advaita philosophy.
Takuan Soho's (1573-1645) two works on Zen and swordsmanship are
among the most straightforward and lively presentations of Zen ever
written and have enjoyed great popularity in both premodern and
modern Japan. Although dealing ostensibly with the art of the
sword,Record of Immovable Wisdom andOn the Sword Taie are basic
guides to Zen-"user's manuals" for Zen mind that show one how to
manifest it not only in sword play but from moment to moment in
everyday life. Along with translations of Record of Immovable
Wisdom and On the Sword Taie (the former, composed in all
likelihood for the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and his fencing master,
Yagyu Munenori), this book includes an introduction to Takuan's
distinctive approach to Zen, drawing on excerpts from the master's
other writings. It also offers an accessible overview of the actual
role of the sword in Takuan's day, a period that witnessed both a
bloody age of civil warfare and Japan's final unification under the
Tokugawa shoguns. Takuan was arguably the most famous Zen priest of
his time, and as a pivotal figure, bridging the Zen of the late
medieval and early modern periods, his story (presented in the
book's biographical section) offers a rare picture of Japanese Zen
in transition. For modern readers, whether practitioners of Zen or
the martial arts, Takuan's emphasis on freedom of mind as the crux
of his teaching resonates as powerfully as it did with the samurai
and swordsmen of Tokugawa Japan. Scholars will welcome this new,
annotated translation of Takuan's sword-related works as well as
the host of detail it provides, illuminating an obscure period in
Zen's history in Japan.
What we need to know about meditation and mindfulness to eliminate
"stress" in our lives is contained in this book. This book follows
and discusses the Satipatthana meditation scheme (pronunciation:
sati-PA'-tana), too often neglected in the West. Many additional
details about Buddhism are discussed including the very nature of
spirituality. This as a mysterious human capacity in the way that
electricity or mechanics are for most people -- but more like a
puzzle, once understood it becomes useful. Reading this is a way of
doing Buddhism as long as the reader continues meditation. The
virtue of participating in chanting and other rituals is also
explained. This is intended as a thorough, well documented and
simply written presentation. Teachings about Purification,
Anapanasati, Heart, Precious Bodhicitta, Realization, Enlightenment
and many other "technical" Buddhist concepts are described. There
is an extensive glossary and bibliography.
This book approaches the topic of intercultural understanding in
philosophy from a phenomenological perspective. It provides a
bridge between Western and Eastern philosophy through in-depth
discussion of concepts and doctrines of phenomenology and ancient
and contemporary Chinese philosophy. Phenomenological readings of
Daoist and Buddhist philosophies are provided: the reader will find
a study of theoretical and methodological issues and innovative
readings of traditional Chinese and Indian philosophies from the
phenomenological perspective. The author uses a descriptive rigor
to avoid cultural prejudices and provides a non-Eurocentric
conception and practice of philosophy. Through this East-West
comparative study, a compelling criticism of a Eurocentric
conception of philosophy emerges. New concepts and methods in
intercultural philosophy are proposed through these chapters.
Researchers, teachers, post-graduates and students of philosophy
will all find this work intriguing, and those with an interest in
non-Western philosophy or phenomenology will find it particularly
engaging.
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