| Description |
xvii, 641 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Between relativism and fundamentalism : hermeneutics as Europe's mainstream political and moral tradition / Ferenc Feher -- Conceptual schemes and linguistic relativism in relation to Chinese / A.C. Graham -- The origins of the question : four traditional Japanese philosophies of language / Thomas P. Kasulis -- Meaning as imaging : Prolegomena to a Confucian epistemelogy / Roger T. Ames -- On the dual nature of traditional Chinese thought and its modernization / Li Zhilin -- A planetary macroethics for humankind : the need, the apparent difficulty, and the eventual possibility / Karl-Otto Apel -- Reasonable challenges and preconditions of adjudication / Antonio S. Cua -- The French Revolution and the Holocaust : can ethics be ahistorical? / Hilary Putnam -- Tradition and moral progress / Joel J. Kupperman -- The shape of artistic pasts, East and West / Arthur C. Danto |
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Philosophers, novelists, and intercultural comparisons : Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens / Richard Rorty -- Lifeworlds, modernity, and philosophical praxis : race, ethnicity, and critical social theory / Lucius Outlaw -- Modern China and the postmodern West / David L. Hall -- From Marxism to post-Marxism / Svetozar Stojanović -- Incommensurability and otherness revisited / Richard J. Bernstein -- Incommensurability, truth, and the conversation between Confucians and Aritotelians about the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The commensurability of Indian epistemological theories / Karl H. Potter -- Pluralism, relativism, and interaction between cultures / Bimal K. Matilal -- The problem of relativism / Jiang Tianji |
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Surrealistic distortion of landscape and the reason of the milieu / Megumi Sakabe -- Why art changes / Richard Wollheim -- The transcendental in a comparative context / Frederick J. Streng -- Reflections on religious pluralism in the Indian context / Margaret Chatterjee -- Three enduring achievements of Islamic philosophy / Lenn E. Goodman -- Two dimensions of religion : reflections based on Indian spiritual experience and philosophical traditions / G.C. Pande -- Between nationalism and nomadism : wondering about the languages of philosophy / Graham Parkes -- The discourse of cultural authenticity : Islamist revivalism and enlightenment universalism / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Traditional political values and ideas : an examination of their relevance to developments in contemporary African political order / Kwame Gyekye -- On the interpretation of traditional cultures / Maria L. Herrera |
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The concept of progress and cultural identity / Roop Rekha Verma -- Moses, Hsüan-tsang, and history / Agnes Heller -- Secularism : sacred and profane / Daya Krishna -- Scientific progress and content loss / Larry Laudan -- A dialectical view of scientific rationality and progress / Marcello Pera -- Scientific progress reconsidered / Ilkka Niiniluoto -- Does progress in science lead to truth? / Lorenz Krüger |
| Notes |
Essays selected from papers presented at the Sixth East-West Philosophers' Conference, August 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Modern.
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East and West -- Congresses.
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East and West.
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Philosophy and civilization -- Congresses.
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Philosophy and civilization.
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Philosophy, Asian -- Congresses.
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Philosophy, Asian.
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Philosophy, Modern -- Congresses.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Deutsch, Eliot.
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East-West Philosophers' Conference (6th : 1989 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
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| LC no. |
91019107 |
| ISBN |
0824813707 (alk. paper) |
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