World Philosophy: An East-West Comparative Introduction to Philosophy

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This unique introduction to comparative philosophy brings together Chinese Indian and Western philosophers of roughly the same sort of comparable stature on the same philosophical topics and issues. Discussions are arranged in traditional clusters -- logic epistemology metaphysics ethics and social and political philosophy. Compares equals to equals -- logicians with logicians metaphysicians with metaphysicians ethicists with ethicists -- e.g. compares Indian Chinese and Western empiricists utilitarians hedonists egoists atheists theists monists pluralists idealists materialists dualists skeptics relativists political realists etc. Treats the strictly philosophical arguments as roughly similar across cultures but presents the larger cultural contexts in which they occur as considerably different. For anyone interested in comparative philosophy.