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African Philosophy - Emancipation and Practice (Hardcover): Pascah Mungwini African Philosophy - Emancipation and Practice (Hardcover)
Pascah Mungwini
R2,038 Discovery Miles 20 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Caught between the history of exclusion and the reality of the world philosophies approach, this is an introduction to African philosophy unlike any other. With distinctive insight Pascah Mungwini brings together African philosophy and the emancipative mission, introducing African thought as a practice defined by its own history and priority questions while always in dialogue with the world. He charts the controversies and contestations around the contemporary practice of philosophy as an academic enterprise in Africa, examining some of philosophy's most serious mistakes, omissions, and failures. Covering the history of African philosophy's development and trajectory, Mungwini's introduction focuses on the struggle for intellectual liberation. His compelling portrayal reveals that true liberation begins by understanding one's own world, an essential point for anyone beginning to explore another philosophical tradition on its own terms.

Meditations - The Philosophy Classic (Hardcover): Marcus Aurelius Meditations - The Philosophy Classic (Hardcover)
Marcus Aurelius; Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon; Introduction by Donald Robertson 1
R345 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R71 (21%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he was the most powerful and influential man in the Western world at the time. Marcus was one of the leaders of Stoicism, a philosophy of personal ethics which sought resilience and virtue through personal action and responsibility. Stoicism, viewed as a foundation of modern self-help, has inspired many personal development and psychotherapy approaches through to the present day. Meditations is perhaps the most important source of our modern understanding of Stoic philosophy. Its twelve books chronicle different stages of Marcus Aurelius' life and ideas. Although he ruled during the Pax Romana, the age of relative peace and stability throughout the empire, his reign was marked by near-constant military conflict and a devastating plague which killed upwards of five million people. Aurelius' writings give modern readers an unprecedented look into the "spiritual exercises" which helped him through his tumultuous life and strengthened his patience, empathy, generosity, self-knowledge and emotional health. The private reflections recorded in the Meditations were never meant to be published, rather they were a source for Marcus' own guidance and self-improvement, and jotted down by campfires or in military tents on the Roman front. The lessons, insights and perspectives contained within this remarkable work are just as relevant today as they were two millennia ago. This volume: Presents the timeless wisdom of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his Stoic philosophy, with new research on his life and times Contains valuable insights on topics such as resilience, moderation and emotional control Discusses how to live "in agreement with nature" and abide by strong ethical principles Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon, this attractive, high-quality hardcover volume includes: An original Introduction by Marcus Aurelius authority and Stoicism expert Donald Robertson, author of How To Think Like A Roman Emperor. A modernised, up to date version of the classic George Long translation. Meditations: The Philosophy Classic is a volume which will occupy a prominent place in any library for years to come.

Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy - A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Hardcover):... Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy - A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge (Hardcover)
Daniel Raveh
R2,367 Discovery Miles 23 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy introduces contemporary Indian philosophy as a unique philosophical genre through the writings of one its most significant exponents, Daya Krishna (1924-2007). It surveys Daya Krishna's main intellectual projects: rereading classical Indian sources anew, his famous Samvad Project, and his attempt to formulate a new social and political theory for India. Conceived as a dialogue with Daya Krishna and contemporaries, including his interlocutors, Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Badrinath Shukla, Ramchandra Gandhi, and Mukund Lath, this book is an engaging introduction to anyone interested in contemporary Indian philosophy and in the thought-provoking writings of Daya Krishna.

Ikigai (Hardcover): Hector Garcia, Francesc Miralles Ikigai (Hardcover)
Hector Garcia, Francesc Miralles 3
R426 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R40 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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The Sufis - Index Edition (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Sufis - Index Edition (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Arcades Tarot - Haiku Poems (Hardcover): Camelia Elias Arcades Tarot - Haiku Poems (Hardcover)
Camelia Elias
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Symposium (Hardcover): Plato Symposium (Hardcover)
Plato; Translated by Benjamin Jowett
R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Special Illumination (Hardcover, Pocket Ed.): Idries Shah Special Illumination (Hardcover, Pocket Ed.)
Idries Shah
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
World Tales (Hardcover): Idries Shah World Tales (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gandhi and Philosophy - On Theological Anti-Politics (Hardcover): Shaj Mohan, Divya Dwivedi Gandhi and Philosophy - On Theological Anti-Politics (Hardcover)
Shaj Mohan, Divya Dwivedi; Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy
R3,991 Discovery Miles 39 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought, animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship, removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence, law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to imagine Gandhi's thought anew.

The Sufis (Large Print Edition) (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Idries Shah The Sufis (Large Print Edition) (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Idries Shah
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sufis - Index Edition (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Sufis - Index Edition (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R739 Discovery Miles 7 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning - Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi (English, Arabic, German, Hardcover): Maurice A... The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning - Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi (English, Arabic, German, Hardcover)
Maurice A Pomerantz, Aram Shahin
R7,941 Discovery Miles 79 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Arabo-Islamic heritage of the Islam is among the richest, most diverse, and longest-lasting literary traditions in the world. Born from a culture and religion that valued teaching, Arabo-Islamic learning spread from the seventh century and has had a lasting impact until the present.In The Heritage of Arabo-Islamic Learning leading scholars around the world present twenty-five studies explore diverse areas of Arabo-Islamic heritage in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher, Dr. Wadad A. Kadi (Prof. Emerita, University of Chicago). The volume includes contributions in three main areas: History, Institutions, and the Use of Documentary Sources; Religion, Law, and Islamic Thought; Language, Literature, and Heritage which reflect Prof. Kadi's contributions to the field. Contributors:Sean W. Anthony; Ramzi Baalbaki; Jonathan A.C. Brown; Fred M. Donner; Mohammad Fadel; Kenneth Garden; Sebastian Gunther; Li Guo; Heinz Halm; Paul L. Heck; Nadia Jami; Jeremy Johns; Maher Jarrar; Marion Holmes Katz; Scott C. Lucas; Angelika Neuwirth; Bilal Orfali; Wen-chin Ouyang; Judith Pfeiffer; Maurice A. Pomerantz; Ridwan al-Sayyid ; Aram A. Shahin; Jens Scheiner; John O. Voll; Stefan Wild.

The Upanishads (Hardcover): Swami Paramananda The Upanishads (Hardcover)
Swami Paramananda
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Book of Five Rings (Illustrated Edition) (Hardcover): Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Five Rings (Illustrated Edition) (Hardcover)
Miyamoto Musashi
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender (Hardcover): Ann A Pang-White The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender (Hardcover)
Ann A Pang-White
R6,266 Discovery Miles 62 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Covering the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender presents a comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender disparity in Chinese thought and culture. Divided into four main sections, an international group of experts in Chinese Studies write on Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist approaches to gender relations. Each section includes a general introduction, a set of authoritative articles written by leading scholars and comprehensive bibliographies, designed to provide the non-specialist with a practical and broad overview. Beginning with the Ancient and Medieval period before moving on to Modern and Contemporary approaches, specially commissioned chapters include Pre-Qin canonical texts, women in early Chinese ethics, the yin-yang gender dynamic and the Buddhist understanding of the conception of gender. Considering why the philosophy of women and gender dynamics in Chinese thought is rarely confronted, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender is a pioneering cross-disciplinary introduction to Chinese philosophy's intersection with gender studies. By bridging the fields of Chinese philosophy, religion, intellectual history, feminism, and gender studies, this cutting-edge volume fills a great need in the current literature on Chinese philosophy and provides student and scholars with an invaluable research resource to a growing field.

Beginning Zen Buddhism - Timeless Teachings to Master Your Emotions, Reduce Stress and Anxiety, and Achieve Inner Peace... Beginning Zen Buddhism - Timeless Teachings to Master Your Emotions, Reduce Stress and Anxiety, and Achieve Inner Peace (Hardcover)
James W Williams
R661 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Tales of the Dervishes (Hardcover): Idries Shah Tales of the Dervishes (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bhagavad Gita (Annotated) (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover): Vyasa The Bhagavad Gita (Annotated) (Deluxe Library Edition) (Hardcover)
Vyasa
R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy - The Reception and the Exclusion (Hardcover): Selusi... Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy - The Reception and the Exclusion (Hardcover)
Selusi Ambrogio
R3,344 Discovery Miles 33 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the late 16th century and the first half of the 18th century. Investigating the description of these two Asian civilizations during a century and a half of histories of philosophy, this book accounts for the change of historiographical paradigms, from Neoplatonic philosophia perennis and Spinozistic atheism to German Eclecticism. Uncovering the reasons for inserting or excluding Chinese and Indian ways of thinking within the field of Philosophy in early modern times, it reveals the origin of the Eurocentric understanding of Philosophy as a Greek-European prerogative. By highlighting how this narrowing and exclusion of non-Western ways of thought was a result of conviction of superiority and religious prejudice, this book provides a new way of thinking about the place of Asian traditions among World philosophies.

End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition - : (English, Arabic, Hardcover): Mohammed Ghaly End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition - : (English, Arabic, Hardcover)
Mohammed Ghaly
R2,805 Discovery Miles 28 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be "engineered" by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by "prolonging/hastening" death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. . " " . : . . .

The Life and Teachings of Confucius (Hardcover): James Legge The Life and Teachings of Confucius (Hardcover)
James Legge
R1,711 Discovery Miles 17 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Toward an Islamic Enlightenment - The Gulen Movement (Hardcover): M. Hakan Yavuz Toward an Islamic Enlightenment - The Gulen Movement (Hardcover)
M. Hakan Yavuz
R1,300 Discovery Miles 13 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

M. Hakan Yavuz offers an insightful and wide-ranging study of the Gulen Movement, one of the most imaginative developments in contemporary Islam. Founded in Turkey by the Muslim thinker Fethullah Gulen, the Gulen Movement aims to disseminate a ''moderate'' interpretation of Islam through faith-based education. Its activities have fundamentally altered religious and political discourse in Turkey in recent decades, and its schools and other institutions have been established throughout Central Asia and the Balkans, as well as western Europe and North America. Consequently, its goals and modus operandi have come under increasing scrutiny around the world.
Yavuz introduces readers to the movement, its leader, its philosophies, and its practical applications. After recounting Gulen's personal history, he analyzes Gulen's theological outlook, the structure of the movement, its educational premise and promise, its financial structure, and its contributions (particularly to debates in the Turkish public sphere), its scientific outlook, and its role in interfaith dialogue. Towards an Islamic Enlightenment shows the many facets of the movement, arguing that it is marked by an identity paradox: despite its tremendous contribution to the introduction of a moderate, peaceful, and modern Islamic outlook-so different from the Iranian or Saudi forms of radical and political Islam-the Gulen Movement is at once liberal and communitarian, provoking both hope and fear in its works and influence.

Philosophical Theology in Islam - Later Ash'arism East and West (Hardcover): Ayman Shihadeh, Jan Thiele Philosophical Theology in Islam - Later Ash'arism East and West (Hardcover)
Ayman Shihadeh, Jan Thiele
R3,665 Discovery Miles 36 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Philosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ash'ari school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazali's role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Din al-Razi as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ash'ari doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ash'ari tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele.

Lectures and Discourses by Swami Vivekananda - given around the world, from 1888 to 1902 (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Lectures and Discourses by Swami Vivekananda - given around the world, from 1888 to 1902 (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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