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World Philosophy: An East-West Comparative Introduction to Philosophy
H. Gene Blocker, Ohio University

ISBN-10: 0138620121
ISBN-13: 9780138620127

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1999
Format: Paper; 304 pp
Published: 12/09/1998

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For freshman-level courses in Introduction to Philosophy. Designed specifically to be accessible to today's first-year students, this unique introduction to comparative philosophy brings together Chinese, Indian, and Western philosophers of roughly the same sort, of comparable stature, on the same philosophical topics and issues. Discussions are arranged, for convenience, in traditional clusters — logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

  • Compares equals to equals — logicians with logicians, metaphysicians with metaphysicians, ethicists with ethicists.

    • E.g., compares Indian, Chinese and Western empiricists, utilitarians, hedonists, egoists, atheists, theists, monists, pluralists, idealists, materialists, dualists, skeptics, relativists, political realists, etc. Pg.___

  • Treats the strictly philosophical arguments as roughly similar across cultures, but presents the larger cultural contexts in which they occur as considerably different. Pg.___

    • E.g., The Indian background of karma is very different from anything in the West (except, perhaps, Socrates' and Plato's belief in reincarnation), but karma raises serious questions about the nature of causality; and, when Indian philosophers tackle the problem of causality, their analyses are very similar and certainly comprehensible to their Western counterparts (who are also interested in causality but for very different reasons). Thus students will get a chance to learn something about the differences among Western and non-Western cultures while at the same time seeing some of the philosophical similarities. Pg.___



1. Introduction: What Is Philosophy?


2. Logic and Language.


3. Epistemology, or Theory of Knowledge.


4. Metaphysics.


5. Ethics.


6. Social and Political Philosophy.


Bibliography.


Glossary.


Timelines.


Index.

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