This volume is a "state-of-the-art" assessment of comparative
philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the
field. While its primary focus is on gaining methodological clarity
regarding the comparative enterprise of "interpreting across
boundaries," the book also contains new substantive essays on
Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and European thought. The contributors
are Roger T. Ames, William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, A. S.
Cua, Eliot Deutsch, Charles Hartshorne, Daya Krishna, Gerald James
Larson, Sengaku Mayeda, Hajime Nakamura, Raimundo Panikkar, Karl H.
Potter, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Ninian Smart,
Fritz Staal, and Frederick J. Streng. Comparative or cross-cultural
philosophy can be seen as a relative newcomer to the field of
philosophy. It has its antecedents in the emergence of comparative
studies in nineteenth-century European intellectual history, as
well as in the sequence of East-West Philosophers' Conferences at
the University of Hawaii, which began in 1939. This book will prove
to be of great significance in helping to define a field that is
only now becoming fully self-conscious, methodologically and
substantively, about its role and function in the larger
enterprises of philosophy and comparative studies. Originally
published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
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