TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweet,William
TI  - Migrating texts & traditions
SN  - 9780776607078
AV  - B51.4 .M54 2012eb
U1  - 109 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ottawa, ON
PB  - University of Ottawa Press
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Culture diffusion
KW  - History
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - Transmission of texts
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: What does it mean for texts and traditions to migrate? -- Part I -- From the West: 1. The migration of Aristotelian philosophy to China in the 17th century; 2. The reformulation of the philoponean proofs in mediaeval Jewish thought; 3. Putting Islam and 'The West' together again: the philosophy of M.M. Sharif; 4. British idealism as a migrating tradition; 5. The migration of ideas and Afrikaans philosophy in South Africa; 6. Heidegger, Japanese aesthetics, and the idea of a 'Dialogue' between east and west; 7. Hermeneutics and the migration of philosophical traditions in East Asia; Part II -- From the east and the south: 8. Dārā Shukoh and the transmission of the Upaniṣads to Islam; 9. A Buddhist 'good life' theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra; 10. Sharing insights: Buddhism and recent Aristotelian ethics; 11. Process concepts of text, practice, and No Self in Buddhism; 12. On Being enabled to say what Is "Truly Real"; 13. The philosophers of Al Andalus and European modernity; 14. Radhakrishnan and the construction of philosophical dialogue across cultural traditions; Part III -- Theoretical issues: 15. Philosophy-in-Place and texts Out of Place; 16. Migrating texts: a hermeneutical perspective; 17. Text, rationality, and knowledge in Indian philosophy; 18. Afterword: Migration: explanation, analysis, and directions
N2  - Examining the phenomenon of the 'migration' of philosophical texts and traditions between cultures
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