Blackwells Companions to Philosophy have built up an excellent and
deserved reputation. 'World Philosophies' means here, 'the major
non-Western philosophical traditions', and includes not only the
great Asian traditions but also Polynesia and Africa. General
overviews are followed by essays on detailed topics. But the
proposed 'general readers' will need a good background knowledge
already, or a good dictionary of world religions as a companion to
the Companion! Islam is included: not a non-Western philosophy as
all the relevant articles make clear, and the editor's perfunctory
three lines arguing for its inclusion do not make the case. The
space would have been better used attending to those general
readers. (Kirkus UK)
Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this
volume offers students, teachers and general readers a rich and
sophisticated introduction to the major non-Western philosophical
traditions - particularly Chinese, Indian, Buddhist and Islamic
philosophies. African and Polynesian thinking are also covered by
way of historical and contemporary survey articles.
The text is organized around a series of central topics
concerning conceptions of reality and divinity, of causality, of
truth, of the nature of rationality, of selfhood, of humankind and
nature, of the good, of aesthetic values, and of social and
political ideals. Outstanding scholars present essays that
articulate the distinctive ways in which these specific problems
have been formulated and addressed in the non-Western traditions
against the background of their varied historical and cultural
presuppositions.
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