An Introduction to Comparative Philosophy: A Travel Guide to Philosophical Space

✍ Scribed by Walter Benesch (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Philosophical Space....Pages 1-5
Worlds within Worlds....Pages 6-15
Thinking about Thinking....Pages 16-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
The Object Dimension: Assumptions....Pages 35-47
Aristotle, Objectivity, and the Unmoved Mover....Pages 48-66
Objectivity and Ataraxia: Epicurean Gardens, a Stoic Porch and Skeptic Scales....Pages 67-87
The Handmaiden and the Handiwork....Pages 88-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Consciousness: One Chariot and Two Views of the Galaxy....Pages 109-129
The Jain Axiom of Non-absolutism....Pages 130-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Situations and Raising Dead Lions....Pages 153-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Way of Nature and Mind as Aspect and Perspective....Pages 177-196
Epilogue....Pages 197-201
Back Matter....Pages 202-229

✦ Subjects

History of Philosophy; Non-Western Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Epistemology