Eastern

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757000294Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Square One PublishersPublisher Square One PublishersDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788198985415Author Satchidananda K. MurtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass...

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.It is through the practice of the arts, and not through rules or theory that moral and spiritual values are taught in Japan. Author Robert E...

A landmark account of Indian philosophy by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerPhilosophies of India is a landmark work on the foundations of Indian philosophy. Based on the copious notes of the great Indologist, linguist, and historian Heinrich Zimmer, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789348911414Author Mukunda RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of "word-meaning," and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to studies of language...

The essays in this book explore the consequences of globalization for democracy, covering issues which include whether democracy implies exclusion or borders, and whether it is possible to create a democracy on a global level. Explores the consequences...

Premodern Buddhists are sometimes characterized as veritable "mind scientists" whose insights anticipate modern research on the brain and mind. Aiming to complicate this story, Dan Arnold confronts a significant obstacle to popular attempts at...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447123518Author British LibraryFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 522g

The intellectual contributions of the Han (206 BCE-CE 220) have for too long received short shrift in introductory anthologies of Chinese thought. It was during the Han's unprecedented centuries-long unification of China that a canon of classical texts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847106050Author Henry Rosemont Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 175Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 386g

Nyaya Sutra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Aksapada, an Indian philosopher who lived around the beginning of the Common Era. The translation is accompanied by the original Sanskrit text and an original commentary.The commentary...

In the first study of its kind, David W. Johnson's Watsuji on Nature reconstructs the astonishing philosophy of nature of Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960), situating it in relation both to his reception of the thought of Heidegger and to his renewal of core...

In a world overflowing with abundance and information, the calm and clarity of stoicism has never been more necessary. In this new book, bestselling author Ken Mogi explores the ancient Greek philosophy as well as its resonance with other cultures around...

This book introduces readers to the Buddhist-based philosophy of education of Daisaku Ikeda. Ikeda's philosophy of education offers human revolution, value creation, and dialogue as counterweights to the violence lurking in today's classrooms. Where...

This book evaluates strategies for managing ethical conflict. Macro-approaches that attribute select values to entire peoples and claim supremacy for these values are suspect. A micro-approach, focusing on the ethics of individual thinkers, is better...

The advances in molecular biology and genetics, medicine and neurosciences, in ethology and environmental studies have put the concept of the person firmly on the philosophical agenda. Whereas earlier times seemed to have a clear understanding about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170356Author Marion (Mugs) McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Al-Bīrūnī (ca. 973-1050) was an innovative encyclopaedist thinker. He is particularly known to have investigated into India of his time...

Norbert M. Samuelson is Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Trained as an analytic philosopher, he went on to establish the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in...

This book provides a standard reference of the major medieval Jewish philosophers, as well as an eminently readable narrative of the course of medieval Jewish philosophical thought, presented as a response to the spiritual-intellectual challenges facing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871698636Author Peter M ScharfFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929194551Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Clearbridge PublishingPublisher Clearbridge PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784793920Author Robert CecilFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF PublishingWeight(grams) 41g

In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it...

One is always struck by the brilliant work of George Sefa Dei but nothing so far has demonstrated his pedagogical leadership as much as the current project. With a sense of purpose so pure and so thoroughly intellectual, Dei shows why he must be credited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886770186Author Swami PrabhavanandaFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Greenpoint Books, LLCPublisher Greenpoint Books, LLCWeight(grams) 703g

One is always struck by the brilliant work of George Sefa Dei but nothing so far has demonstrated his pedagogical leadership as much as the current project. With a sense of purpose so pure and so thoroughly intellectual, Dei shows why he must be credited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788188661084Author R. ParthasarathyFormat PaperbackImprint East West Books, (Madras) Pvt LtdPublisher East West Books, (Madras) Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788188043248Author Mohan MakkarFormat PaperbackImprint Winsome Books IndiaPublisher Winsome Books India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186050712Author M.N. SircarFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Bharatiya Kala PrakashanPublisher Bharatiya Kala Prakashan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788177550986Author W.M. TeapeFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173862830Author Dr. H. PrashadFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Books for AllPublisher Books for All

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788121509435Author T.P. RamachandranFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Munshiram Manoharlal PublishersPublisher Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers

Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) was one of the great twentieth-century figures of India. Over the course of his lifetime, he helped India's struggle for freedom and became a leading yogi, philosopher, and poet of his time and culture. In his teaching, Sri...