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A Philosophical Defense of Culture - Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (Paperback): Shuchen Xiang A Philosophical Defense of Culture - Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (Paperback)
Shuchen Xiang
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Indian Buddhist Philosophy - Metaphysics as Ethics (Hardcover, New): Amber Carpenter Indian Buddhist Philosophy - Metaphysics as Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Amber Carpenter
R5,334 R4,476 Discovery Miles 44 760 Save R858 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Organised in broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, this book follows three key themes that both tie the tradition together and are the focus for most critical dialogue: the idea of anatman or no-self, the appearance/reality distinction and the moral aim, or ideal. Indian Buddhist philosophy is shown to be a remarkably rich tradition that deserves much wider engagement from European philosophy. Carpenter shows that while we should recognise the differences and distances between Indian and European philosophy, its driving questions and key conceptions, we must resist the temptation to find in Indian Buddhist philosophy, some Other, something foreign, self-contained and quite detached from anything familiar. Indian Buddhism is shown to be a way of looking at the world that shares many of the features of European philosophy and considers themes central to philosophy understood in the European tradition.

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity - Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought (Paperback, New): Leo Strauss Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity - Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought (Paperback, New)
Leo Strauss; Edited by Kenneth Hart Green; Introduction by Kenneth Hart Green
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished.

The Ethics of Sankara and Santideva - A Selfless Response to an Illusory World (Hardcover, New Ed): Warren Lee Todd The Ethics of Sankara and Santideva - A Selfless Response to an Illusory World (Hardcover, New Ed)
Warren Lee Todd
R4,930 Discovery Miles 49 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Exploring the philosophical concerns of the nature of self, this book draws from two of the most influential Indian masters, Sankara and Santideva. Todd demonstrates that an ethics of altruism is still possible within a metaphysics which assumes there to be no independent self. A new ethical model based on the notions of 'flickering consciousness' and 'constructive altruism' is proposed. By comparing the metaphysics and ethics of Sankara and Santideva, Todd shows that the methodologies and aims of these Buddhist and Hindu masters trace remarkably similar cross-cutting paths. Treating Buddhism and Hinduism with equal respect, this book compares and reinterprets the Indian material so as to engage with contemporary Western debates on self and to show that Indian philosophy is indeed a philosophy of dialogue.

The Ordinances of Manu - Translated from the Sanskrit (Paperback): Arthur Coke Burnell The Ordinances of Manu - Translated from the Sanskrit (Paperback)
Arthur Coke Burnell
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Published in 2000. This is Volume III of ten of the Oriental series looking at Indian Religion and Philosophy. It was written around 1884 and includes the translation from Sanskrit of the 'Manava-dharma-castra' by the late Dr. Burnell which was completed by the editor.

The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (Hardcover, New): Chenyang Li The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony (Hardcover, New)
Chenyang Li
R4,627 Discovery Miles 46 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian philosophy of harmony. The book traces the roots of the concept to antiquity, examines its subsequent development, and explicates its theoretical and practical significance for the contemporary world. It argues that, contrary to a common view in the West, Confucian harmony is not mere agreement but has to be achieved and maintained with creative tension. Under the influence of a Weberian reading of Confucianism as "adjustment" to a world with an underlying fixed cosmic order, Confucian harmony has been systematically misinterpreted in the West as presupposing an invariable grand scheme of things that pre-exists in the world to which humanity has to conform. The book shows that Confucian harmony is a dynamic, generative process, which seeks to balance and reconcile differences and conflicts through creativity. Illuminating one of the most important concepts in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, this book is of interest to students of Chinese studies, history and philosophy in general and eastern philosophy in particular.

The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China - Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse (Hardcover): Kai-Wing Chow The Rise of Confucian Ritualism in Late Imperial China - Ethics, Classics, and Lineage Discourse (Hardcover)
Kai-Wing Chow
R2,007 Discovery Miles 20 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This pathbreaking work argues that the major intellectual trend in China from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century was Confucian ritualism, as expressed in ethics, classical learning, and discourse on lineage.
Reviews
"Chow has produced a work of superb scholarship, fluently written and beautifully researched. . . . One of the landmarks of the current reconstruction of the social philosophy of the Qing dynasty. . . . Chow's book is indispensable. It has illuminating analyses of many mainstream writers, institutions, and social categories in eighteenth-century China which have never previously been examined."
--Canadian Journal of History
"Chow's monograph moves ritual to center stage in late imperial social and intellectual history, and the author makes a powerful case for doing so. . . . Because the author understands the intellectual history of late Ming and Qing as the history of a movement, or successive movements, of fundamental social reform, he has also made an important contribution to social and political history as these were related to intellectual history."
--Journal of Chinese Religion
"Chow's book is an excellent contribution to recent scholarship on the intellectual history of the Confucian tradition and provides a balance for other studies that have emphasized ideas to the exclusion of symbols."
--The Historian

Philosophy and Law - Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors (Paperback): Leo Strauss Philosophy and Law - Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors (Paperback)
Leo Strauss; Translated by Eve Adler; Introduction by Eve Adler
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Art of War (Hardcover): Sun Tzu The Art of War (Hardcover)
Sun Tzu
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written 2500 years ago, The Art of War is the oldest military treatise in the world, a classic study of competition and rivalry that has been utilized by soldiers ever since. Napoleon studied its strategies and tactics. It is required reading for intelligence personnel in the United States Marine Corps. "Warriors" of Wall Street and in corporation cultures rely on it for guidance. It's even been rumored to help players win at the board game Risk. This 1910 translation by the British Museum's Lionel Giles is the most popular one available, a highly readable version of this still startlingly relevant text. Lionel Giles also translated The Book of Mencius and Sayings of Confucius. Sun Tzu lived in China in the 6th century B.C. and was a contemporary of Confucius.

Confucian Reflections - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (Paperback, New): Philip J. Ivanhoe Confucian Reflections - Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times (Paperback, New)
Philip J. Ivanhoe
R1,387 Discovery Miles 13 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe argues that the Analects is as relevant and important today as it has proven to be over the course of its more than 2000 year history, not only for the people who live in East Asian societies but for all human beings. The fact that this text has inspired so many talented people for so long, across a range of complex, creative, rich, and fascinating cultures offers a strong prima facie reason for thinking that the insights the Analects contains are not bound by either the particular time or cultural context in which the text took shape.

Yoga as Philosophy and Religion (Paperback): Surendranath Dasgupta Yoga as Philosophy and Religion (Paperback)
Surendranath Dasgupta
R1,605 Discovery Miles 16 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

1924. This little volume is an attempt at a brief exposition of the philosophical and religious doctrine found in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra as explained by its successive commentaries of Vyasa, Vacaspati, Vijnana Bhikshu and others. The scope of this work is limited to a brief exposition of the intellectual foundation, or the theoretical side, of the Yoga practices, consisting of the philosophical, psychological, cosmological, ethical, religious, and other doctrines which underlie these practices.

Classical Vaisesika in Indian Philosophy - On Knowing and What is to Be Known (Hardcover): Shashiprabha Kumar Classical Vaisesika in Indian Philosophy - On Knowing and What is to Be Known (Hardcover)
Shashiprabha Kumar
R4,622 Discovery Miles 46 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy. It represents a pluralistic realism and is usually held to be an atomistic, metaphysical theory. This book explores the basic tenets of the Vaisesika classical school of Indian philosophy from a new perspective. It argues that it reveals an epistemological formulation of its own, which was diminished due to later developments in the history of Indian philosophical tradition.

Focusing on the principles of knowable objects and the processes of knowing as propounded by the Vaisesika school of Indian Philosophy, the book offers a fuller appreciation of the theories. Providing a balanced approach by examining earliest available material in the original sources of Vaisesika and concentrating on the epistemological pattern adopted therein, it presents an authentic and comprehensive understanding of Vaisesika concepts. This is the first introductory sourcebook in English for the authentic study of Vaisesika, and is of use to students and scholars of World Religion and Philosophy.

An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy - The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with the Commentary of Yogaraja (Paperback): Lyne... An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy - The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta with the Commentary of Yogaraja (Paperback)
Lyne Bansat-Boudon, Kamaleshadatta Tripathi
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Paramarthasara, or 'Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth-eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the doctrine of which he is a notable exponent, namely nondualistic Saivism, which he designates in his works as the Trika, or 'Triad' of three principles: Siva, Sakti and the embodied soul (nara). The main interest of the Paramarthasara is not only that it serves as an introduction to the established doctrine of a tradition, but also advances the notion of jiv anmukti, 'liberation in this life', as its core theme. Further, it does not confine itself to an exposition of the doctrine as such but at times hints at a second sense lying beneath the evident sense, namely esoteric techniques and practices that are at the heart of the philosophical discourse. Its commentator, Yogaraja (eleventh century), excels in detecting and clarifying those various levels of meaning. An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy presents, along with a critically revised Sanskrit text, the first annotated English translation of both Abhinavagupta's Paramarthasara and Yogaraja's commentary. This book will be of interest to Indologists, as well as to specialists and students of Religion, Tantric studies and Philosophy.

Chuang Tzu (Paperback): Herbert A. Giles Chuang Tzu (Paperback)
Herbert A. Giles
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1889. This re-issues the second, revised edition of 1926. Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Te Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism. Whereas Lao Tzu was a contemporary of Confucius in the sixth century B.C, Chuang Tzu lived over two hundred years later. He was one of the greatest minds produced by China; philosopher, metaphysician, moralist and poet. It is impossible to understand the spiritual depth of the Tao Te Ching without the aid of Chuang Tzu.

Way, Learning, and Politics - Essays on the Confucian Intellectual (Paperback): Tu Weiming Way, Learning, and Politics - Essays on the Confucian Intellectual (Paperback)
Tu Weiming
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology - Kumarila on Perception: The 'Determination of Perception' Chapter of... A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology - Kumarila on Perception: The 'Determination of Perception' Chapter of Kumarila Bhatta's Slokavarttika - Translation and Commentary (Paperback)
John Taber; Foreword by Francis X. Clooney
R1,803 Discovery Miles 18 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a translation of the chapter on perception of Kumarilabhatta's magnum opus, the Slokavarttika, one of the central texts of the Hindu response to the criticism of the logical-epistemological school of Buddhist thought. In an extensive commentary, the author explains the course of the argument from verse to verse and alludes to other theories of classical Indian philosophy and other technical matters. Notes to the translation and commentary go further into the historical and philosophical background of Kumarila's ideas. The book provides an introduction to the history and the development of Indian epistemology, a synopsis of Kumarila's work and an analysis of its argument.

Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Hardcover, New Ed): Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi... Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue - Self and No-Self (Hardcover, New Ed)
Irina Kuznetsova, Jonardon Ganeri, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R4,635 Discovery Miles 46 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The debates between various Buddhist and Hindu philosophical systems about the existence, definition and nature of self, occupy a central place in the history of Indian philosophy and religion. These debates concern various issues: what 'self' means, whether the self can be said to exist at all, arguments that can substantiate any position on this question, how the ordinary reality of individual persons can be explained, and the consequences of each position. At a time when comparable issues are at the forefront of contemporary Western philosophy, in both analytic and continental traditions (as well as in their interaction), these classical and medieval Indian debates widen and globalise such discussions. This book brings to a wider audience the sophisticated range of positions held by various systems of thought in classical India.

A Place to Live - A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements... A Place to Live - A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements (Hardcover)
Inshil Choe Yoon
R2,308 Discovery Miles 23 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Place to Live brings together in a single volume an introduction to Yi Chung-hwan's (1690-1756) T'aengniji (Treatise on Choosing Settlement)-one of the most widely read and influential of the Korean classics-and an annotated translation of the text, including the author's postscript. Yi composed the T'aengniji in the 1750s, a time when, despite King Yongjo's (r. 1724-1776) policy of impartiality, the scholar-gentry class continued to identifiy strongly with literati factions and to participate in the political scene as such. A prominent secretary who had his career cut short because of suspected involvement in one of the largest literati purges at court, Yi endured long periods of living in exile before finishing the T'aengniji in his early sixties. The treatise, his only substantial work, is based largely on his travels throughout the Korean peninsula and presents not only his views on the desirability of places for settlement, but also his opinions on contemporary matters and criticism of government policy. As a result, the T'aengniji circulated as an anonymous work for many years. Employing the latest research on T'aengniji manuscripts, translator Inshil Yoon maintains in her introduction that the original title of the treatise was Sadaebu kagoch'o (Livable Places for the Scholar-Gentry); she goes on to discuss in detail its reception by pre-modern and contemporary scholars and the treatise's on-going popularity as evidenced by the numerous versions and translations done in this and the previous century, its having been made into a novel, and current usage of ""T'aengniji"" as a noun meaning ""regional geography"" or ""travelogue."" The present translation is based on the Choson Kwangmunhoe edition.

Exile and Otherness - The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Hardcover): Ilana Maymind Exile and Otherness - The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Hardcover)
Ilana Maymind
R2,549 R2,288 Discovery Miles 22 880 Save R261 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides, Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173-1263), the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu), and Maimonides (1138-1204), a Jewish philosopher, Torah scholar, and physician, were both deeply affected by their conditions of exile as shown in the construction of their ethics. By juxtaposing the exilic experiences of two contemporaries who are geographically and culturally separated and yet share some of the same concerns, this book expands the boundaries of Shin Buddhist studies and Jewish studies. It demonstrates that the integration into a new environment for Shinran and the creative mixture of cultures for Maimonides allowed them to view certain issues from the position of empathic outsiders. Maymind demonstrates that the biographical experiences of these two thinkers who exhibit sensitivity to the neglected and suffering others, resonate with conditions of exile and diasporic living in pluralistic societies that define the lives of many individuals, communities, and societies in the twenty-first century.

Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home - How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life (Hardcover): Marie Kondo Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home - How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life (Hardcover)
Marie Kondo
R796 R723 Discovery Miles 7 230 Save R73 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy - Sanskrit Terms Defined in English (New and Revised Edition) (Paperback, New and... A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy - Sanskrit Terms Defined in English (New and Revised Edition) (Paperback, New and Revised Edition)
John A Grimes
R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Containing over 500 new listings of frequently used religious terms and numerous etymological derivations, this new and revised edition of A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy provides a comprehensive dictionary of Indian philosophical terms in both devanagari and roman transliteration along with an English translation. It offers special meanings of words used as technical terms within particular philosophical systems and contains the meaning of terms fundamental to epistemology, metaphysics, and practical teaching of heterdox and orthodox schools of Indian philosophy.

Epistemology in Classical India - The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School (Hardcover): Stephen H. Phillips Epistemology in Classical India - The Knowledge Sources of the Nyaya School (Hardcover)
Stephen H. Phillips
R4,626 Discovery Miles 46 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Phillips gives an overview of the contribution of Nyaya--the classical Indian school that defends an externalist position about knowledge as well as an internalist position about justification. Nyaya literature extends almost two thousand years and comprises hundreds of texts, and in this book, Phillips presents a useful overview of the under-studied system of thought. For the philosopher rather than the scholar of Sanskrit, the book makes a whole range of Nyaya positions and arguments accessible to students of epistemology who are unfamiliar with classical Indian systems.

Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers (Paperback): Diane Collinson, Robert Wilkinson Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers (Paperback)
Diane Collinson, Robert Wilkinson
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These are questions to which oriental thinkers have given a wide range of philosophical answers that are intellectually and imaginatively stimulating. Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers is a succinctly informative introduction to the thought of thirty-five important figures in the Chinese, Indian, Arab, Japanese and Tibetan philosophical traditions. Thinkers covered include founders such as Zoroaster, Confucius, Buddha and Muhammed, as well as influential modern figures such as Gandhi, Mao Tse-Tung, Suzuki and Nishida. The book is divided into sections, in which an introduction to the tradition it covers precedes the essays on its individual philosophers. Notes, further reading lists, and cross-references provide the student with a clear route to further study. There is a glossary of key terms at the end of the book.

Transition to Neo-Confucianism - Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality (Hardcover): Anne D. Birdwhistell Transition to Neo-Confucianism - Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality (Hardcover)
Anne D. Birdwhistell
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most part, misunderstood for a thousand years. It is the first full-length study in any language of Shao Yung's philosophy.
Using an explicit metaphilosophical approach, the author examines the implicit and assumed aspects of Shao Yung's thought and shows how it makes sense to view his philosophy as an explanatory theory. Shao Yung explained all kinds of change and activity in the universe with six fundamental concepts that he applied to three realms of reality: subsensorial "matter," the phenomenal world of human experience, and the theoretical realm of symbols.
The author also analyzes the place of the sage in Shao's philosophy. Not only would the sage restore political and moral unity in society, but through his special kind of knowing he also would restore cosmological unity. Shao's recognition that the perceiver had a critical role in making and shaping reality led to his ideal of the sage as the perfect knower. Utilizing Shao's own device of a moving observational viewpoint, the study concludes with an examination of the divergent interpretations of Shao's philosophy from the eleventh to the twentieth century.
Because Shao took very seriously numerological aspects of Chinese thought that are often greatly misunderstood in the West (e.g., the I Ching), the study is also a very good introduction to the epistemological implications of an important strand of all traditional Chinese philosophical thought.

Tracing the Path of Yoga - The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline (Hardcover): Stuart Ray Sarbacker Tracing the Path of Yoga - The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline (Hardcover)
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
R1,967 Discovery Miles 19 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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