Within the Four Seas--: Introduction to Comparative PhilosophyPeeters Publishers, 2007 - 634 էջ Our world has evolved in such a way that we can no longer reduce it to just a market - it has also become an agora, where philosophers exchange world-views in order to understand one another. Europe has lost its position at the centre of the world and should stop pretending it holds the one true religion, philosophy, economy and science. Instead, we should turn our attention to fulfilling the dream of Erasmus reflected in his statement: "I wish to be a citizen of the world". First and foremost, we should learn to play fair when comparing different cultures and not rely on exlusively western criteria. This book explains how a comparative model, based on the paradigm-free axes of energy and information, accommodates the current world-views of Taoism, Buddhism and Rationalism - representing Chinese, Indian and Western heritages respectively - and shows how science and religion interrelate within such a global framework. |
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PHILOSOPHY OF GLOBALISM GLOBALIZATION OF PHILOSOPHY | 1 |
the world as an agora | 23 |
the world as a memory | 32 |
citizen of the world | 45 |
IN SEARCH OF A COMPARATIVE | 71 |
Building up a model | 90 |
Two forms of information | 100 |
becoming being nonbeing being | 134 |
The communicative situation | 175 |
CHINESE GREEK AND INDIAN | 197 |
TOO FAR EAST IS WEST | 291 |
transit models | 305 |
BACK TO DAILY LIFE | 521 |
Humanism and spirituality | 531 |
The meaning of Eastern philosophy for the West | 543 |
The future of Chinese philosophy | 576 |
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