Blackwell companions to philosophy. 

xviii, 587 pages ; 25 cm.; PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.Chinese philosophy: a synoptic view /Tu Weiming ;A history of Indian philosophy /J.N. Mohanty ;Classical Polynesian thinking /John Charlot ;African philosophy: a historical overview /D.A. Masolo ;A survey of Buddhist thought /Ninian Smart ;Islamic philosophy: an overview /Tamara Albertini --PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS.Ideas of the good in Chinese philosophy /Shun Kwong-Loi ;The Chinese conception of selfhood /Roger T. Ames ;Human beings and nature in traditional Chinese thought /P.J. Ivanhoe ;Causation in Chinese philosophy /Carine Defoort ;Chinese socio-political ideals /Henry Rosemont ;Reality and divinity in Chinese philosophy /Chung-Ying Cheng ;Reason and principle in Chinese philosophy: an interpretation of li /A.S. Cua ;The way and the truth /David L. Hall ;Chinese aesthetics /Stephen J. Goldberg --Socio-political thought in classical India /Daya Krishna ;Indian conceptions of reality and divinity /Gerald James Larson ;Rationality in Indian philosophy ;Humankind and nature in Indian philosophy /John M. Koller ;The idea of the good in Indian thought /J.N. Mohanty ;Indian aesthetics: a philosophical survey /Edwin Gerow ;The self and person in Indian philosophy /Stephen H. Phillips ;Truth in Indian philosophy /Amita Chatterjee --Ideas of the good in Buddhist philosophy /P.D. Premasiri ;Reflections on social and political ideals in Buddhist philosophy / John Ross Carter ;Causality in Buddhist philosophy /G.C. Pande ;Humankind and nature in Buddhism /Knut A. Jacobsen ;Buddhist reality and divinity /Kenneth K. Inada ;The Buddhist concept of self /Thomas P. Kasulis ;Rationality in Buddhist thought /David Bastow ;Buddhist perspectives on ontological truth /Matthew Kapstein --Truth and Islamic thought /Andrey Smirnov ;Islamic aesthetics /Seyyed Hossein Nasr ;Reality and divinity in Islamic philosophy /Josep Puig Montada ;Selfhood/personhood in Islamic philosophy /John Walbridge ;The concept of the good in Islamic philosophy /Mourad Wahba ;Causality and Islamic thought /Andrey Smirnov ;Rationality in Islamic philosophy /Majid Fakhry --PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SITUATION.Contemporary Chinese philosophy /Roger T. Ames --Contemporary Japanese philosophy /Shigenori Nagatomo --The contemporary Indian situation /Bina Gupta --Contemporary Polynesian thinking /John Charlot --Current trends and perspectives in African philosophy /Segun Gbadegesin --Contemporary Buddhist philosophy /Michiko Yusa --Contemporary Islamic thought /Marietta Stepaniants.; Offers an introduction to the major non-Western philosophical traditions--specifically those of China, India, Buddhism, and Islam. African and Polynesian thinking are also covered by way of historical and contemporary survey articles. --From publisher description.; 

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