From the FOREWORD to this book by J. N. MOHANTY: "It is undoubtedly a great pleasure to read a competent work in which three of the greatest philosophers of the world-Aquinas, Sankara and Husserl-are treated with equal respect, their philosophies 'synthesized, ' as a result of which a new interpretation of Husserl is just on the verge of emerging...Ruddy does take out a part from the Aristotle-Aquinas heritage-the theory of real relations, of relations which are asymmetrical, real from one side and intentional from another, and embeds it in Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. The result...