Philosophy in World Perspective

In this original work of systematic philosophy, David Dilworth places the major texts of Western and Oriental philosophy and religion, both ancient and modern, into one comparative framework. His study reveals affinities between thinkers who lived centuries and continents apart and produces numerous insights by bringing great philosophical texts together into a single purview. "This is a provocative and challenging book: far-reaching in scope and implication, worldwide in its vision, yet inescapably Aristotelian in its grounding. It is to be hoped that it will acquaint more Western readers with Chinese philosophy, while spurring Asian thinkers to offer counterproposals about the crucial issues of philosophy in their respective traditions and the best methods to compare them."-Carl Becker, Journal of Asian Studies "The work opens new interpretive possibilities for intra- and inter-textual reflection on a grand scale."-Edith Wyschogrod, Queens College "Philosophers East or West should buy and read this book."-Robert Magnolia, Tamkang University and National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Contents: Introduction - resources for an intellectual renaissance today; prolegomena to any future hermeneutic; the principles of Athenian and Hellenistic philosophy; archic configurations in pre-socratic philosophy; the principles of Confucian philosophy; Chinese philosophies in world perspective; early modern western philosophy; the changes of the books in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought; the world religions; the architecture of theories. Appendix: the archic matrix.