Recently added articles from Philosophy East and West:
Hiroshi Kojima's phenomenological ontology.(Monad and Thou: Phenomenological Ontology of the Human Being)(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Introduction In his book Monad and Thou: Phenomenological Ontology of the Human Being, Japanese philosopher Hiroshi Kojima proposes to redefine the I-Thou relation, first extensively investigated by Martin Buber, and to reconcile the notions of 'individuality' and 'community' ...
Mengzi, strategic language, and the shaping of behavior.
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Mengzi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Mencius) text provides a rich account of Mengzi's conversations with various interlocutors, and in these interactions Mengzi often makes claims that appear to stake out positions on a wide range of philosophical issues, including the nature of ...
Awareness bound and unbound: realizing the nature of attention.
Apr 01, 2008; ... No wisdom can we get hold of, no highest perfection, No Bodhisattva, no thought of enlightenment either. When told of this, if not bewildered and in no way anxious, A Bodhisattva courses in the Tathagata's wisdom. In form, in feeling, will, perception and awareness Nowhere in them they ...
Nothingness and the work of art: a comparative approach to existential phenomenology and the ontological foundation of aesthetics.
Apr 01, 2008; ... Existential phenomenology has played a major role within Western philosophy in the attempt to overcome the dualistic conception of the world in which an ideal or metaphysical realm exists separately from everyday reality. To understand the extent to which it has not completely succeeded in ...
Being and value: from the perspective of Chinese-Western comparative philosophy.
Apr 01, 2008; ... When a human being begins to examine a thing, the following questions will always be asked: "What is it?" "What does it mean?" "What should it be?" The first question mainly concerns the inherent specifications or simply the features of the thing; the second, its meaning to the human ...
The Existence of God: Mulla Sadra's Seddiqin Argument versus Criticisms of Kant and Hume.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Existence of God: Mulla Sadra's Seddiqin Argument versus Criticisms of Kant and Hume. By Hamidreza Ayatollahy. Tehran: SIPRIn (Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute Publication), 2005. Pp. iii + 181. The Existence of God: Mulla Sadra's Seddiqin Argument versus ...
Did Dogen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Did Dogen Go to China? What He Wrote and When He Wrote It. By Steven Heine. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 298. Hardcover $99.00. Paper $35.00. Over the last thirty years Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), founder of Zen's Soto school, has become, in the ...
The Philosophy of Qi: The Record of Great Doubts.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Philosophy of Qi: The Record of Great Doubts. Translation and introduction by Mary Evelyn Tucker. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 208. When compared to the dominance of Zhu Xi's orthodoxy centered on the notion of li [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.], the ...
Islamisches Bilderverbot vom Mittel- bis ins Digitalzeitalter.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... Islamisches Bilderverbot vom Mittel- bis ins Digitalzeitalter. By A. Ibric. Wien: LIT Verlag GmbH, 2006. Pp. 120. Islamisches Bilderverbot vom Mittel- bis ins Digitalzeitalter by Almir Ibric is a contribution to a small but growing literature in the long-neglected area of ...
God and Humans in Islamic Thought: 'Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2008; ... God and Humans in Islamic Thought: 'Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali. By Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 214. Hardcover. Paper. God and Humans in Islamic Thought: 'Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali by Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth deals with a ...
Books received.
Apr 01, 2008 ... Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. By Stephen R. Bokenkamp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 220. Hardcover $49.95, 32.50 [pounds sterling]. Arnis Self-Defense: Stick, Blade, and Empty-Hand Combat Techniques of the ...