Interpreting across boundaries :

Interpreting across boundaries : new essays in comparative philosophy / edited by Gerald James Larson and Eliot Deutsch. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988. - ix, 316 p. ; 22 cm.

Papers from a conference sponsored by the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in 1984.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The "age-old distinction between the same and the other" / Gerald James Larson -- Metaphor as key to understanding the thought of other speech communities / Karl H. Potter -- Against relativism / Henry Rosemont, Jr. -- Comparative philosophy: what it is and what it ought to be / Daya Krishna -- The contextual fallacy / Ben-Ami Scharfstein -- Śankara, Nāgārjuna, and Fa Tsang, with some Western analogues / Charles Hartshorne -- What is comparative philosophy comparing? / Raimundo Panikkar -- The meaning of the terms 'philosophy' and 'religion' in various traditions / Hajime Nakamura -- Mechanisms of self-deception and true awareness according to C.G. Jung and the Eight-thousand-line perfection of wisdom sutra / Frederick H. Streng -- Knowledge and the tradition text in Indian philosophy / Eliot Deutsch -- The analogy of meaning and the tasks of comparative philosophy / Ninian Smart -- Śankara and Nāgāryuna guru / Sengaku Mayeda -- Is there philosophy in Asia? / Frits Staal -- Chu Hsi and world philosophy / Wing-Tsit Chan -- Confucius and the ontology of knowing / Roger T. Ames -- Reflections on moral theory and understanding moral traditions / A.S. Cua -- Neoconfucianism as traditional and modern / Wm. Theodore De Bary.

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Philosophy, Comparative--Congresses.

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