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The Art of War has been a source of great strategical inspiration throughout the ages. Focusing on military strategy, psychology and tactics, each section concentrates on a different facet of warfare and draws out important themes such as communication,...

We live in a time of abundance and comfort for some, scarcity and hardship for others-a period that seems to have all of us teetering on the brink. Certainly, there is no lack of modern crises, but do we possess the wisdom to overcome them, and where...

Laozi's "Daodejing": A New Translation With Environmentalist Commentary offers a new translation and fresh interpretation of the eighty-one-verse Daodejing, one of the central texts of Eastern philosophy. Likely written during the late Zhou Dynasty...

Wei Shi's well-crafted study weaves together historical context, ideological complexities, and insightful case studies on Confucian metaphysics, ethics, and politics. Engagingly written, it seamlessly bridges the gap between universal and nationalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789369526918Author Nitesh GorFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788177696158Author John GarwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 65Imprint Pilgrims PublishingPublisher Pilgrims Publishing

A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the...

Samkhya is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, system of classical Indian philosophy. This book traces its history from the third or fourth century B. C. up through the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia as a whole will present the substance of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486836799Author Charles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Indian philosophical thought on Prama?`na (Valid Cognition) is a rich archive that merits attention not only for its technical brilliance and variety but also for the ways in which it reverberates with contemporary discussions in science: arguably the...

In All Things Act, Mercedes Valmisa argues that there is no such thing as an individual action and that all actions are constituted and performed by a diverse array of entities. Examining the collective character of action, this book rejects the view of...

Contrasting with conventional Neo-Confucian attempts to recast the Confucian heritage in light of modern Western values, this book offers a Reconstructionist Confucian project to reclaim Confucian resources to meet contemporary moral and public policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472452442Author Katsuki SekidaFormat PaperbackImprint Editorial Kair sPublisher Editorial Kair s

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472456051Author Jiddu KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackImprint Editorial KairosPublisher Editorial Kairos

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472453784Author Amadeo Sole-LerisFormat PaperbackImprint Editorial Kair sPublisher Editorial Kair s

Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788179923597Author Shreyas MorakhiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Jaico Publishing HousePublisher Jaico Publishing HouseDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392510397Author Greg BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477205296Author Djalal Un Din RumiFormat PaperbackImprint ObeliscoPublisher Obelisco

Dasheng qixin lun, or Treatise on Awakening Mahayana Faith has been one of the most important texts of East Asian Buddhism since it first appeared in sixth-century China. It outlines the initial steps a Mahayana Buddhist needs to take to reach...

Key areas and aspects of ancient philosophy in Greek and Indian Buddhist traditions are illuminated in this collection.Covering an extended period of time, from early (5th century BC), through Hellenism, to post-Hellenistic times (up to the 7th century...

Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens...

Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens...

Xiong Shili (1885-1968) is widely recognized as a founding figure of the modern New Confucian school of philosophy and seen by many as one of the most important and creative Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century. His ultimate concern throughout...

While many people today might turn to ancient Sanskrit philosophers for meditation or yoga, probably few would turn to them for help with difficult contemporary problems, such as what counts as "fake news" or navigating Internet debates. Philosopher...

Bringing together a number of case studies, this book shows how from early on Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. Narrowing in on the commonplace Chinese motto that "the three...

This book offers an in-depth introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism. Bret Davis explores the philosophical implications of Zen teachings and koans, comparing and contrasting these with other Asian as well as Western religions and...

The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the collective's ambition to put into question the certitudes of conventional social science discourse,...

The Concept of Man in Contemporary China claims that the most striking political theories and policies of the contemporary period rest on distinctly Chinese theories of mind. Many of these theories contrast dramatically with long-held Western beliefs,...

Contrasts classical Greek ontology ("the science of being in itself") with Confucian "zoetology" ("the art of living").In Living Chinese Philosophy, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology...

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887276382Author Marie-Louise FriquegnonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Cool Grove Publishing Inc NYPublisher Cool Grove Publishing Inc...

Deepens our understanding of this contemporary Chinese thinker's philosophy and its significance.Li Zehou (1930-2021) was one of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers, transforming Confucian philosophy into a resource for positive change. From...

Humanity takes up space. Human beings, like many other species, also transform spaces. What is perhaps uniquely human is the disposition to qualitatively transform spaces into places that are charged with distinctive kinds of intergenerational...

One of the undisputed giants in the history of human thought, and the founder of one of the world's longest-lasting cultural traditions, Confucius (known as Kong Fuzi in his native China) is arguably the most enduring of all the world's great thinkers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417963309Author Michael WylanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Reverte Management InternationalPublisher Reverte Management International

One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition.In this book, one of contemporary China's most prominent philosophers, Li Zehou, explores one of the central...

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language presents a systematic survey of philosophy of language in the Indian tradition, providing an up-to-date research resource for better understanding the history and future direction of the...