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World Philosophies

World Philosophies

by NinianSmart (Author)

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    Hardcover 1998

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Synopsis

This is a collection of stories of philosophy and religion from around the world. The author discusses figures such as: Plato and Kierkega ard in the West; the Buddha and Mao Zedong in Asia; temples and Knibanga in Africa; and Rodo and Royce in America. It also includes ideas such as: Indian ideas of testimony and evidence; Chinese notions of moral development; Buddhist concepts of cosmology; and Latin American critiques of materialism.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 452
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 24 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0415184665
ISBN 13: 9780415184663

Media Reviews
In a work of amazing breadth and cogency, the acknowledged master of the study of world civilization leads us through the philosophies that have guided some corners of humanity and today lay claim to a hearing everywhere. Ninian Smart has studied languages and histories, philosophies and literatures, east and west, north and south, and with panache and verve he introduces in a profound way worlds that, before our time have rarely collided. This is a masterpiece of lucid description, analysis, and interpretation of the ways people have made sense of things - choices that today face us all.
-Jacob Neusner, University of South Florida and Bard College
Ninian Smart is one of the few public religious intellectuals who can be compared to the late Joseph Campbell.
- Library Journal
I thought this was an excellent book. All the chapters are both interesting and of an equally high standard. There is a lot of interest in nowadays, especially in the US, in world philosophy...Ninian Smart is one of the best writers on the topic working today.
-Oliver Leaman, Liverpool John Moores University
Ninian Smart has once again brought his considerable skills--philosophy, phenomenology of religion, cross-cultural comparisons, and theology--to bear on a much needed compendium on philosophies of the world. And all the more urgent as we move towards a fecundation of global civilizations. It indeed is a garland 'woven out of the differing flowers of many traditions'
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-Purushottama Bilimoria, Editor of Sophia
As a work of reference, this will be invaluable. Smart's analysis of such crucial thinkers as Buddha, Confucius, Descartes and Derrida is impeccable.
-The Times