The Status of the Individual in East and West /
"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 prevale...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2021]
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- 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