World Philosophies – An Historical Introduction 2e

Preface to second edition.
<p>1. Introduction.</p>
<p>Part I: Ancient Philosophies: .</p>
<p>2. India.</p>
<p>The ′Schools′ and their Framework.</p>
<p>Nyaya.</p>
<p>Samkhya and Yoga.</p>
<p>Advaita Vedanta.</p>
<p>Buddhism.</p>
<p>Ethics and Indian Philosophy.</p>
<p>3. China.</p>
<p>The Character of Chinese Philosophy.</p>
<p>Confucianism.</p>
<p>Mohism.</p>
<p>Taoism.</p>
<p>4. Greece.</p>
<p>Legacies.</p>
<p>Naturalism and Relativism.</p>
<p>Plato.</p>
<p>Aristotle.</p>
<p>Epicureanism, Scepticism and Stoicism.</p>
<p>Part II: Middle Period and ′Modern′ Philosophies: .</p>
<p>5. Medieval Philosophies.</p>
<p>Religion and Philosophy.</p>
<p>Neo–Platonism and Early Christianity.</p>
<p>Islamic and Jewish Philosophy.</p>
<p>Thomism and its Critics.</p>
<p>Medieval Mysticism.</p>
<p>6. Developments in Asian Philosophy.</p>
<p>Theistic Vedanta.</p>
<p>Neo–Confucianism.</p>
<p>Zen Buddhism.</p>
<p>Illumination.</p>
<p>7. From Renaissance to Enlightenment.</p>
<p>Humanism and the Rise of Science.</p>
<p>Scepticism.</p>
<p>Dualism, Materialism and Idealism.</p>
<p>Monism and Monadology.</p>
<p>Enlightenment and Its Critics.</p>
<p>Part III: Recent Philosophies:.</p>
<p>8. Kant and the Nineteenth Century.</p>
<p>Kant.</p>
<p>Absolute Idealism.</p>
<p>Philosophies of the Will.</p>
<p>Marxism and Social Darwinism.</p>
<p>Positivism, Pragmatism and British Idealism.</p>
<p>9. Recent Non–Western Philosophies.</p>
<p>India.</p>
<p>China and Japan.</p>
<p>The Islamic World.</p>
<p>Africa.</p>
<p>10. Twentieth–Century Western Philosophies.</p>
<p>Philosophies of Life.</p>
<p>Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Existentialism.</p>
<p>Logical Atomism and Logical Positivism.</p>
<p>Naturalisms.</p>
<p>Postmodernism and Related Tendencies.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>