Recently added articles from Philosophy East and West:
Philosophy in the ten directions: global sensibility and the imaginary.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Pirruccello, Ann ... <Pre>The supreme way is not difficultIf only you do not pick and choose ....For and against opposing each other--Thisis the mind's disease.--Xin Xin Ming (Faith in Mind) </Pre> The Xin Xin Ming's sweeping inclusion of what comes and goes ...
Hearts in agreement: Zhuangzi on dao adept friendship.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Blakeley, Donald N. ... Attention to friendship in the Zhuangzi is never very direct or substantive, but two stories in chapter 6 invite reflection. The accounts stipulate conditions for the acquaintances, the mutual acceptance of which immediately transforms the nature of their relationship. They become friends ...
Mirrors, minds, and metaphors.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Cline, Erin M. ... As most scholars of classical Chinese philosophy are well aware, the Zhuangzi and the Xunzi both make use of the metaphor of the heart-mind (xin [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) as a mirror. For Zhuangzi, a heart-mind like a mirror constitutes the ideal state of unity with the Way: "The ...
Guarding what is essential: critiques of material culture in Thoreau and Yang Zhu.(Henry David Thoreau)(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Fox, Alan ... But I would say to my fellows, once and for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. --Henry David Thoreau, Walden Introduction In his book Walden, (1) Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) purports to describe an experiment designed to determine what ...
Why Zhuangzi's real discovery is one that lets him stop doing philosophy when he wants to.(Critical essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Peterman, James ... Introduction A text of great interest to Western philosophers, the Zhuangzi is enormously difficult to decipher. The bizarre stories of criminals, strange animals, and unresolved rhetorical questions, no less than the use of what appears to be technical language about language, ...
The way of the dialetheist: contradictions in Buddhism.(COMMENT AND DISCUSSION)
Jul 01, 2008; Deguchi, Yasuo ... Introduction Anyone who is accustomed to the view that contradictions cannot be true and cannot be accepted, and who reads texts in the Buddhist traditions, will be struck by the fact that these texts frequently contain contradictions. Just consider, for example: (1) ...
Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Botwinick, Aryeh ... Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. By Menachem Kellner. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. Pp. 364. Hardcover. $49.50. Menachem Kellner's interesting and important book, Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, tries to situate Maimonides in his ...
Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Science and Salvation.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Jacobs, Jonathan ... Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Science and Salvation. By Donald McCallum. Routledge Jewish Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. iii + 183. Donald McCallum says of his book Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Science and Salvation that its aim "is to establish ...
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa ... The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global. By Virginia Held. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. viii + 211. Virginia Held's latest work, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global, is another important contribution to the ongoing reconstruction and ...
Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Sarukkai, Sundar ... Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy. By Shyam Ranganathan. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2007. Pp. 402. The engagement of the West with Indian thought is marked by constant challenges to claims that Indian traditions were concerned with themes and disciplines that are and ...
A Cloud across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Tan, Sor-hoon ... A Cloud across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western Political Theories Today. By Thomas A. Metzger. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. Pp. xxviii + 816. Hardcover $65.00. A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash between Chinese and Western ...
Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra.(Book review)
Jul 01, 2008; Winfield, Pamela D. ... Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra. By Taigen Dan Leighton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2007. Pp. 208. Hardcover $55.00. Taigen Dan Leighton has done it again. Following Dogen's Extensive Record (Wisdom Publications, 2005)--his ...
Books received.
Jul 01, 2008 ... The Analects of Confucius. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. 162. Hardcover $19.95, 1.95 [pounds sterling]. Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist. By Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching. Berkeley: Blue Snake Books, 2007 ....
Center for Comparative Philosophy newly established at SJSU.(NEWS AND NOTES)(San Jose State University in California)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... At San Jose State University in California, USA, a research center concerning comparative philosophy was formally established in Fall 2007: the Center for Comparative Philosophy ('the CCP at SJSU' for short). Bo Mou has been appointed as its director. The CCP at SJSU understands ...