Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Eastern

• Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy.
  
• Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition.
  
• Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

• Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought in America.
  
• Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leading scholars in American philosophy.
  
• Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical movements in America including idealism, pragmatism and naturalism.
  
• Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophical thought.
  The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the most ambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought.
  

  
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• Provides a comprehensive history of philosophical thought in America.
  
• Brings together 24 newly commissioned essays written by leading scholars in American philosophy.
  
• Covers all of the major eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophical movements in America including idealism, pragmatism and naturalism.
  
• Examines the major figures and themes in American philosophical thought.
  The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy offers the most ambitious survey to date of American philosophical thought.
  

  
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Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are provided.

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of philosophy. It is the first anthology of Chinese philosophy to cover its entire historical development. It provides substantial selections from all the great thinkers and schools in every period--ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary--and includes in their entirety some of the most important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental and technical as well as the more...

Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this volume, W. Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the Guanzi into English. This represents a truly monumental effort, as the Guanzi is a long and notoriously difficult work. It was compiled in its present form about 26 B.C. by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang and the surviving text consists of some seventy-six anonymous essays dating from the fifth century B.C. to the first...

In eighteenth-century Japan, Tsunetomo Yamamoto created the Hagakure, a document that served as the basis for samurai warrior behavior. Its guiding principles greatly influenced the Japanese ruling class and shaped the underlying character of the Japanese psyche, from businessmen to soldiers. Bushido is the first English translation of this work. It provides a powerful message aimed at the mind and spirit of the samurai warrior. With Bushido, one can better put into perspective Japan's historical path.