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Migrating texts & traditions [electronic resource] / edited by William Sweet.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Ottawa, ON : University of Ottawa Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780776607078
  • 0776607073
Other title:
  • Migrating texts and traditions
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Migrating texts & traditions.DDC classification:
  • 109 23
LOC classification:
  • B51.4 .M54 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Examining the phenomenon of the 'migration' of philosophical texts and traditions between cultures.
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Examining the phenomenon of the 'migration' of philosophical texts and traditions between cultures.

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.

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