The Status of the Individual in East and West / / ed. by Charles A. Moore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bhattacharyya, Kalidas,; Chan, Wing-Tsit,; Chano, Tara,; Chun-I, T\x27ang,; Dasgupta, Surama,; Fang, Thome H.,; Hajime, Nakamura,; Hocking, William Ernest,; Ichirō, Hori,; Malalasekera, G. P.,; Masaaki, Kōsaka,; McKeon, Richard,; McMurrin, Sterling M.,; Mccarthy, Harold E.,; Mei, Y. P.,; Moore, Charles A.,; Murti, T. R. V.,; Nagley, Wlnfield E.,; Polin, Raymond,; Rahman, Fazlur,; Raju, P. T.,; Reale, Miguel,; Regamey, Constantin,; Saksena, S. K.,; Smith, John E.,; Strong, E. W.,; Suzuki, Daisetz T.,; Takeyoshi, Kawashima,; Tesshi, Furukawa,; Werkmeister, W. H.,; Wu, John C. H.,; Yoshifumi, Ueda,; Yu-Wei, Hsieh,
• HerausgeberIn: Moore, Charles A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1968
• Utgivningsår: 2021
• Språk: English
• Fysisk beskrivning: 1 online resource (628 p.)

“Life is cheap in the Orient; in the West, the individual is more important than the society.” “Real democracy exists only in the West; Eastern governments are despotic.” Statements such as these, although not always worded in the same way, are cliches that have long been prevalent in the Western wo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Greetings
• Introduction: The conference, the problem, the program
• Section I. Metaphysics
• The world and the individual in Chinese metaphysics
• The status of the individual in Indian metaphysics
• The status of the individual in Theravāda Buddhist philosophy
• The status of the individual in Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy
• A brief note on individuality in East and West
• Section II. Methodology
• The individual and the world in Chinese methodology
• Indian epistemology and the world and the individual
• Consciousness of the individual and the universal among the Japanese
• Knowledge, skepticism, and the individual
• Section III. Religion
• The individual in Chinese religions
• The world and the individual in Indian religious thought
• The status of the individual in Islam
• The appearance of individual self-consciousness in Japanese religions and its historical transformations
• The individual and the Judeo-Christian tradition
• Section IV. Ethics
• The status of the individual in Chinese ethics
• The individual in Indian ethics
• The individual in Japanese ethics
• The status of the person in Western ethics
• Section V. Social Thought and Practices
• The status of the individual in Chinese social thought and practice
• The individual in social thought and practice in India
• The status and role of the individual in Japanese society
• Searches for agreement by persuasion
• Section VI. Legal and Political Thought and Institutions
• The status of the individual in the political and legal traditions of old and new China
• The individual in the legal and political thought and institutions of India
• The status of the individual in the notion of law, right, and social order in Japan
• Legal status of individuals
• The individual in law and in legal philosophy in the West
• About the political status of the contemporary individual in the West
• Appendix
• Public Lectures
• The individual in American philosophy
• The individual and the universal in East and West
• The individual person in Zen
• Summary and Concluding Remarks
• The individual in East and West: review and synthesis
• Concluding remarks
• Who's Who
• Index