From Africa to Zen

An Invitation to World Philosophy

Contributions by Roger T. Ames University of Hawai'i, J Baird Callicott, David L. Hall, Peter D. Hershock, Oliver Leaman University of Kentucky, Janet McCracken, Robert A. McDermott, Eric Ormsby, Thomas W. Overholt, Graham Parkes Professor of Philosophy, Roy Perrett, Stephen H. Phillips, Homayoon Sepasi-Tehrani, Jacqueline Trimier, Jorge Valadez Edited by Robert C. Solomon Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguishe, Kathleen M. Higgins

Publication date:

01 January 2003

Length of book:

312 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

228x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742513495

In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on revisions and updates to the original essays on China, India, Japan, and the Americas, this new edition also considers three philosophical traditions for the first time—Jewish, Buddhist, and South Pacific (MOori) philosophy.

Chapter 1 Understanding Order: The Chinese Perspective
Chapter 2 Ways of Japanese Thinking
Chapter 3 Traditional American Indian Attitudes toward Nature
Chapter 4 Pre-Columbian and Modern Philosophical Perspectives in Latin America
Chapter 5 Arabic Philosophy
Chapter 6 Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 7 Persian Philosophy
Chapter 8 The Myth of Authenticity: Personhood, Traditional Culture, and African Philosophy
Chapter 9 Indian Philosophies
Chapter 10 Buddhist Philosophy
Chapter 11 Måori Philosophy
Chapter 12 Esoteric Philosophy

Robert Solomon and Kathy Higgins, editors, and the many distinguished contributors are to be congratulated for this excellent second edition of the work. The new chapters on Jewish, Buddhist, and Maori Philosophy maintain the high standard of the original chapters, all of which are written with great clarity and insight. Anyone interested in the philosophies of the world should gratefully accept the invitation to learn from this fine book.