| Description |
161 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The question of being as comparative philosophy / Mervyn Sprung -- Part I. Some Western perspectives -- Being in early Western tradition / Joseph Owens -- Linguistic relativism and the Greek project of ontology / Charles H. Kahn -- Plato and Heidegger / H.G. Gadamer -- Questions in Heidegger's thought about being / Zygmunt Adamczewski -- Heidegger's path of thinking and the way of meditation in the early Upanisads / Robert C. Scharff -- Part II. Some Eastern perspectives -- On being and what there is : Indian perspectives on the question of being / Wilhelm Halbfass -- Some special characteristics of Sat (being) in Advaita Vedanta / J.G. Arapura -- Being and the Middle Way / Mervyn Sprung -- Some aspects of Indian thinking on being / J.N. Mohanty |
| Analysis |
Ontology Theories of Asian philosophy compared with theories of Western philosophy Conference proceedings |
| Notes |
Papers read at a symposium at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ont |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Ontology -- Congresses.
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Ontology.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Sprung, Mervyn.
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| LC no. |
76041846 |
| ISBN |
0271012420 |
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