East-West Studies on the Problem of the Self Papers presented at the Conference on Comparative Philosophy and Culture held at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, April 22–24, 1965
The general characteristics of the decades after the last World War, so far as the human situation goes, include two phenomena: these decades are marked by man's dissatisfaction with himself, his confession of ignorance of himself, his anxiety about his future, and also his earnest search for t...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1968, 1968
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1968 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Towards a More Comprehensive Concept of the Person
- 2. Love, Self, and Contemporary Culture
- 3. The Problem of Immortality
- 4. Free Will, Creativity of God, and Order
- 5. Other Persons, Other Things
- 6. The Concept of Rational Animal
- 7. The Self in Mu’tazilah Thought
- 8. Unity: Appearance and Reality in the Light of the Sufi Doctrines of Wahdat-ul-Wujud of Ibn ‘Arabi and Wahdat-ush-Shahud of Shaik Ahmed Sarhandi
- 9. Variants in the Concepts of the Self in the Islamic Tradition
- 10. Is There a Soul or No Soul? The Buddha Refused to Answer. Why?
- 11. ?ankara’s Interpretation of the Self and Its Influence on Later Indian Thought
- 12. Person and Moral Life (A Presentation of the Nature of Person and the Essence of Moral Life in the Philosophy of Prajñ?p?ramit?
- 13. The Self as Discovery and Creation in Western and Indian Philosophy
- 14. The Bhagavad g?t? and the Book of Job on the Problem of the Self
- 15. Pre-existence
- 16. Approaches to the I-consciousness: Its Depths, Normal and Abnormal
- 17. Concern for the Person — Concluding Paper