TY - GEN AU - Deutsch, Eliot Ed. AU - Bontekoe, Ron Ed. TI - Companion to world philosophies SN - 9780631213277 U1 - 109 PY - 1999/// CY - Malden PB - Blackwell Pub. Ltd. KW - N1 - Contents List of contributors ix Preface xii Guide to pronunciation xv PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Chinese philosophy: a synoptic view 3 Til WHIM INC A history of Indian philosophy 24 ]. N. MOHANTY Classical Polynesian thinking 49 JOHN CHARCOT African philosophy: a historical overview 63 D. A. MASOLO A survey of Buddhist thought 78 N I NIA N SMART Islamic philosophy: an overview 99 TAMARA ALBERTIN1 PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS The Chinese tradition 7 Ideas of the good in Chinese philosophy 139 SHUN KWONG-UOI The Chinese conception of selfhood 148 ROGER T. AM l!S Human beings and nature in traditional Chinese thought 155 P. J. IVANHOE Causation in Chinese philosophy 165 CARINE DEF00RT Chinese socio-political ideals 174 HENRY R()SEMONT, |R Reality and divinity in Chinese philosophy 185 CHUNG-YING CHENG Reason and principle in Chinese philosophy: an interpretation of ii 201 A. S. CUA The way and the truth 214 DAVID L. HAM, Chinese aesthetics 225 STEPHEN |. GOLDBERG The Indian tradition Socio-political thought in classical India 237 DAYA KRISHNA Indian conceptions of reality and divinity 248 GERALD JAMES LARSON 18 Rationality in Indian philosophy 259 A R 1 N D A M C H A K R A B A R TI Humankind and nature in Indian philosophy 2 79 |OHN M. ROLLER The idea of the good in Indian thought 290 ]. N. MOHANTY Indian aesthetics: a philosophical survey 304 EDWIN GEROW The self and person in Indian philosophy 324 STEPHEN H. PHILLIPS Truth in Indian philosophy 334 A M IT A CHATTERJEE The Buddhist tradition Ideas of the good in Buddhist philosophy 249 P. I. PREMASIRI Reflections on social and political ideals in Buddhist philosophy 360 JOHN ROSS CARTER Causality in Buddhist philosophy 370 G. C. PANDE Humankind and nature in Buddhism 381 KNIIT A. (ACOBSEN Buddhist reality and divinity 392 KENNETH K . I N A I) A The Buddhist concept of self 400 THOMAS P. KASULI8 Rationality in Buddhist thought 410 DAVID BASTOW Buddhist perspectives on ontological truth 420 MATTHEW KAPSTEIN The Islamic tradition Truth and Islamic thought 437 ANDREY SMIRNOV Islamic aesthetics 448 SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR Reality and divinity in Islamic philosophy 460 JOSEP PUIG MONTADA 3 5 Selfhood/personhood in Islamic philosophy 472 |0HN WALBRIDGE The concept of the good in Islamic philosophy 484 MOURAO WAHUA Causality and Islamic thought 493 ANDREY SMIRNOV Rationality in Islamic philosophy 504 MA] ID PAKHRY PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION Contemporary Chinese philosophy 517 ROGER T. AMES Contemporary Japanese philosophy 523 SHIGENOR] NAGAT0M0 The contemporary Indian situation 531 BIN A GUPTA Contemporary Polynesian thinking 542 JOHN CHARl.OI Current trends and perspectives in African philosophy 548 SEGUN GIJA I) EG ESI N Contemporary Buddhist philosophy 564 Ml CHI KG YUSA Contemporary Islamic thought 573 MARIETTA STEPANIANTS Index 581 ER -