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The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy (Hardcover): Mark Siderits The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy (Hardcover)
Mark Siderits
R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A shorter and less technical treatment of its subject than the author's acclaimed Buddhism As Philosophy (second edition, Hackett, 2021), Mark Siderits's The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates the Buddha's teachings as philosophy: a set of claims-in this case, claims about the nature of the world and our place in it-supported by rational argumentation and, here, developed with a variety of systematic results. The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy will be especially useful to students of philosophy, religious studies, and comparative religion-to anyone, in fact, encountering Buddhist philosophy for the first time.

The Tortoise in Asia (Hardcover): Tony Grey The Tortoise in Asia (Hardcover)
Tony Grey
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on a popular legend in Gansu, the far western province of China, The Tortoise in Asia recounts the exploits of Marcus, a young Roman centurion schooled in the Greek classics who, after a devastating loss in a battle with the Parthians, is taken prisoner, marched along the Silk Road, and pressed into service as a border guard on the eastern frontier. After a daring escape, Marcus has many adventures working with the Hun army as a mercenary. Throughout this harrowing journey, Marcus learns about Chinese philosophies, uncovering the startling similarities between these philosophies and those of Greece.

Confucian China and its Modern Fate - Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity (Paperback): Josephr Levenson Confucian China and its Modern Fate - Volume One: The Problem of Intellectual Continuity (Paperback)
Josephr Levenson
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1958 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes: * The critique of Idealism * Science and Ch'ing empiricism * The Ming style, in society and art * Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection * Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices * T'i and Yung * The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction * The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism * The role of nationalism * Communism * Western powers and Chinese revolutions * Language change and the problem of continuity

Confucian China and its Modern Fate - Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay (Paperback): Josephr Levenson Confucian China and its Modern Fate - Volume Two: The Problem of Monarchical Decay (Paperback)
Josephr Levenson
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1964 These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume Two includes: * The Republic: Confucianism and Monarchism interwoven * Confucianism and Monarchy: The basic confrontation * The evolution of the Confucian Bureaucratic personality * The limits of despotic control * Monarch and people * The Taiping Relation to Confucianism * The Japanese and Chinese monarchical mystiques

Light on Yoga - The Classic Guide to Yoga by the World's Foremost Authority (Paperback): B. K. S. Iyengar Light on Yoga - The Classic Guide to Yoga by the World's Foremost Authority (Paperback)
B. K. S. Iyengar
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Political Philosophy of Confucianism - An interpretation of the social and political ideas of Confucius, his forerunners,... The Political Philosophy of Confucianism - An interpretation of the social and political ideas of Confucius, his forerunners, and his early disciples. (Paperback)
Leonard Shihlien Hsu
R1,363 R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Save R382 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1932. One of the most astonishing features of the Confucian teaching to the modern reader is its anticipation of the Spencerian formula of evolution and its adaptation of this to a programme of progress. This volume shows that Confucius' teaching is still relevant in many of its features, not merely for China but also for the West. Contents include: The background of Confucian political philosophy; the state and its origin; political unity and organization; the principle of benevolent government; law and justice; democracy and representation, social evolution.

Viewing the Islamic Orient - British Travel Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): Pallavi Pandit Laisram Viewing the Islamic Orient - British Travel Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Pallavi Pandit Laisram
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Islamic Orient studies the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single factor had an overwhelming influence on them. She shows that westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the orient, and being away for long periods from their homelands, were in fact able to stand between cultures and view them both as insiders and outsiders. The literary devices used to examine these writings are structure, characterization, satire, landscape description, and word choice, as also the social and political milieu of the writers. The major influences in the author's analysis are Said, Foucault, Abdel-Malek and Marie Louise Pratt.

Paradisal Plums -- Peaceful Ponderings from a (Rebel) Pandit's Puce Palm, Volume 2 - Aphorisms, Adages, & Analects of Sri... Paradisal Plums -- Peaceful Ponderings from a (Rebel) Pandit's Puce Palm, Volume 2 - Aphorisms, Adages, & Analects of Sri Adi Dadi (Hardcover)
Etobnan Karta
R1,106 R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Save R384 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The reader's regular perusal, and intelligent contemplation of the spiritual 'Plums' that are strewn about in these books, promises to help the spiritualising process in all serious students of esoteric lore, as well as all seekers of God, to become ever more firmly rooted (mind and heart) in the Divine.

Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab - Dreams, Memories, Territoriality (Paperback): Yogesh Snehi Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab - Dreams, Memories, Territoriality (Paperback)
Yogesh Snehi
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab. What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century? What was the fate of popular shrines that persisted even when the Muslim population was virtually wiped off as a result of migration during Partition? How did these shrines manifest in the context of the threat posed by militants in the 1980s? How did such popular practices reconfigure themselves when some important centres of Sufism were left behind in the West Punjab (now Pakistan)? This book examines several of these questions and utilizes a combination of analytical tools, new theoretical tropes and an ethnographic approach to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they are both historicized and spatialized. As such, it lays out some crucial contours of the method and practice of understanding popular sacred spaces (within India and elsewhere), bridging the everyday and the metanarratives of power structures and state formation. This book will be useful to scholars, researchers and those engaged in interdisciplinary work in history, social anthropology, historical sociology, cultural studies, historical geography, religion and art history, as well as those interested in Sufism and its shrines in South Asia.

Calibrating Western Philosophy for India - Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Bergson and Vaddera Chandidas (Paperback): A.... Calibrating Western Philosophy for India - Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Bergson and Vaddera Chandidas (Paperback)
A. Raghuramaraju
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book proposes a new way of reading modern Western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology, or the practice of importing theories of Western philosophy, and shows how its unmediated applications are often incongruent, irrelevant, and unproductive in local frameworks. The author shows an alternative route to approaching philosophers from the West - Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Bergson - by bending and reassembling aspects of their ideas and theories to relate with the diversity and complexity of Indian society. He also offers insights on the politics of non-being and negation from a neglected modern Indian philosopher, Vaddera Chandidas, as a step forward from the Western philosophers presented here. An intervention in philosophical research methodology, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of philosophy, Western philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative studies, postcolonial studies, literature, cultural studies, and political philosophy.

Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India (Paperback, 2nd edition): Sachidananda Mohanty Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Sachidananda Mohanty
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences of Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra Alfassa, James Cousins, Paul Richard, Dilip Kumar Roy, and Taraknath Das. Using archival texts and photographs, Mohanty interrogates the ideas of tradition and modernity, the local and the global, and Self and the world as integral to the conception of a cosmopolitan world order. This second edition will interest scholars and students of modern Indian history, comparative literature, cultural studies, Indian philosophy, and South Asian studies and the general reader.

The Global Gandhi - Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy (Paperback): Ramin Jahanbegloo The Global Gandhi - Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy (Paperback)
Ramin Jahanbegloo
R1,222 Discovery Miles 12 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a comparative study of Gandhi's philosophy and analyzes his relevance to modern political thought. It traces the intellectual origins of Gandhi's nonviolence as well as his engagement with Western thinkers - ancient as well as his contemporaries. The author discusses Gandhi's exchanges with eminent thinkers like Tolstoy and Thoreau, and looks at his vision of pluralism, democracy, and violence through the lens of philosophers like Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Further, it explores Gandhi's association with Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khilafat Movement. Finally, the book examines Gandhian thought in the light of his global followers like Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela. An invaluable resource for the contemporary mind, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, political thought, Gandhi studies, and philosophy.

Critical Humanities from India - Contexts, Issues, Futures (Paperback): D. Venkat Rao Critical Humanities from India - Contexts, Issues, Futures (Paperback)
D. Venkat Rao
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this volume attempts to unravel the 'barely secularized heritage' of Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms, 'without alibi', the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies, environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial theory, India studies, and education.

Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy - The Turn toward Virtue (Hardcover): Chienkuo Mi, Michael... Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy - The Turn toward Virtue (Hardcover)
Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, Ernest Sosa
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world's leading epistemologists and ethicists-located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia-to explore in a global context what they are calling, "the virtue turn." The 15 chapters have never been published previously and by covering topics that bridge epistemology and moral philosophy suggest a widespread philosophical turn away from Kantian and Utilitarian issues and towards character- and agent-based concerns. A goal of this volume is to show students and researchers alike that the (re-)turn toward virtue underway in the Western tradition is being followed by a similar (re-)turn toward virtue in Chinese philosophy.

The Life of Padma, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Svayambhudeva The Life of Padma, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Svayambhudeva; Edited by Eva De Clercq
R902 R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Save R95 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first English translation of the oldest extant work in Apabhramsha, a literary language from medieval India, recounting the story of the Ramayana. The Life of Padma, or the Paumacariu, is a richly expressive Jain retelling in the Apabhramsha language of the famous Ramayana tale. The work was written by the poet and scholar Svayambhudeva, who lived in south India around the beginning of the tenth century. Like the epic tradition on which it is based, The Life of Padma narrates Prince Rama's exile, his search for his wife Sita after her abduction by King Ravana of Lanka, and the restoration of his kingship. The first volume of The Life of Padma begins by recounting the histories and noteworthy ancestors of Rama's allies and enemies, focusing on his antagonist, Ravana. Svayambhudeva connects central characters from the Ramayana tradition to one another and to Rishabha, the founding prophet of Jainism, in a complex web of family relations dating back generations. This is the first direct translation into English of the oldest extant work in Apabhramsha, accompanied by a corrected reprint in the Devanagari script of Harivallabh C. Bhayani's critical edition.

Avicenna - His Life and Works (Hardcover): Soheil M Afnan Avicenna - His Life and Works (Hardcover)
Soheil M Afnan
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East. It shows him in the right historical perspective, as the product of the impact of Greek thought on Islamic teachings against the background of the Persian Renaissance in the tenth century. His attitude can be of guidance to those in the East who are meeting the challenge of Western civilization; and to those in the West who have yet to find a basis on which to harmonize scientific with spiritual values.

From East To West - Odyssey of a Soul (Paperback, 2nd edition): Roy Bhaskar From East To West - Odyssey of a Soul (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Roy Bhaskar
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this radical book, Roy Bhaskar expands his philosophy of critical realism with an audacious re-synthesis of many aspects of Western and Eastern thought. Arguing that the existence of God provides the fundamental structure of the world, he renders plausible ideas of reincarnation, karma and moksha or liberation. Originally published in the year of the millennium, From East to West continues to be a groundbreaking and fundamental work within the critical realist tradition. Stimulating debate in ontology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, this book has been influential as a major new development in critical realism. This second edition contains a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, who is the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and editor and principal author of the Dictionary of Critical Realism.

From East To West - Odyssey of a Soul (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Roy Bhaskar From East To West - Odyssey of a Soul (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Roy Bhaskar
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this radical book, Roy Bhaskar expands his philosophy of critical realism with an audacious re-synthesis of many aspects of Western and Eastern thought. Arguing that the existence of God provides the fundamental structure of the world, he renders plausible ideas of reincarnation, karma and moksha or liberation. Originally published in the year of the millennium, From East to West continues to be a groundbreaking and fundamental work within the critical realist tradition. Stimulating debate in ontology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion, this book has been influential as a major new development in critical realism. This second edition contains a new introduction from Mervyn Hartwig, who is the founding editor of the Journal of Critical Realism and editor and principal author of the Dictionary of Critical Realism.

Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy - Empty Persons (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Mark Siderits Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy - Empty Persons (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Mark Siderits
R4,067 Discovery Miles 40 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and personal identity has emerged. Fully revised and updated, and drawing on these changes as well as on developments in the author's own thinking, Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, second edition explores the conversation between Buddhist and Western Philosophy showing how concepts and tools drawn from one philosophical tradition can help solve problems arising in another. Siderits discusses afresh areas involved in the philosophical investigation of persons, including vagueness and its implications for personal identity, recent attempts by scholars of Buddhist philosophy to defend the attribution of an emergentist account of personhood to at least some Buddhists, and whether a distinctively Buddhist antirealism can avoid problems that beset other forms of ontological anti-foundationalism.

Surgical Philosophy - Concepts of Modern Surgery Paralleled to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' (Paperback): Hutan... Surgical Philosophy - Concepts of Modern Surgery Paralleled to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' (Paperback)
Hutan Ashrafian
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Treating disease can be considered a combat between curative therapies and pathological afflictions. As such, the action of achieving a cure can be likened to successfully waging war on sickness and bodily disorders. Surgical Philosophy applies the core principles derived from Sun Tzu's timeless book Art of War to combating disease through surgery. Its goal is to offer principles, strategies and leadership guidelines for surgeons at all levels and other healthcare practitioners who carry out interventional procedures for the ultimate aim of defeating illness and enhancing the care of patients. In providing a novel and exciting perspective on this ancient text, the book will also be of interest to students of leadership, Eastern philosophy and Chinese history. The book follows eleven sections of the Art of War. Each section reflects the messages in the Art of War, but with a modern surgical point of view. In the book, the role of the surgeon is equivalent to that of a leader or military commander, and the lessons offered in the Art of War are expanded to identify surgical principles and practice.

The Art of War - Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) (Paperback, First Edition, Bilingual edition): Tzu The Art of War - Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) (Paperback, First Edition, Bilingual edition)
Tzu; Foreword by Minford; Translated by Giles
R250 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R41 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded. Now available in its complete form, including the Chinese characters and English text, this essential examination of the art of decisive military strategy features extensive commentary and an insightful historical introduction written by Lionel Giles, its original translator. This new edition includes an all-new introduction by the scholar of ancient Chinese literature, John Minford.

Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy (Hardcover): Peter Flugel, Olle Qvarnstroem Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy (Hardcover)
Peter Flugel, Olle Qvarnstroem
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Interest in Indian religion and comparative philosophy has increased in recent years, but despite this the study of Jaina philosophy is still in its infancy. This book looks at the role of philosophy in Jaina tradition, and its significance within the general developments in Indian philosophy. Bringing together chapters by philologists, historians and philosophers, the book focuses on karman theory, the theory of conditional predication, epistemology and the debates of Jaina philosophers with representatives of competing traditions, such as Ajivika, Buddhist and Hindu. It analyses the relationship between religion and philosophy in Jaina scriptures, both Digambara and Svetambara, and will be of interest to scholars and students of South Asian Religion, Philosophy, and Philology.

Mencius on the Mind - Experiments in Multiple Definition (Paperback): I. A Richards Mencius on the Mind - Experiments in Multiple Definition (Paperback)
I. A Richards
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Long out of print, I. A. Richards's extraordinary 1932 foray into Chinese philosophy is worth reviving for its detached interpretation of the Chinese classics.

Emptiness Appraised - A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy (Paperback): David F. Burton Emptiness Appraised - A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy (Paperback)
David F. Burton
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Paperback): Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics - An Outline of Indian Non-Realism (Paperback)
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
R1,480 Discovery Miles 14 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed against idealist denials of externality, realist arguments for an independent world and the sceptical denial of the coherence of cognition.

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