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Book SynopsisPapers from a conference sponsored by the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in 1984.
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*Introduction: The "Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other", pg. 1*Metaphor as Key to Understanding the Thought of Other Speech Communities, pg. 19*Against Relativism, pg. 36*Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought to Be, pg. 71*The Contextual Fallacy, pg. 84*Sankara, Nagarjuna, and Fa Tsang, with Some Western Analogues, pg. 98*What Is Comparative Philosophy Comparing?, pg. 116*The Meaning of the Terms 'Philosophy' and 'Religion' in Various Traditions, pg. 137*Mechanisms of Self-Deception and True Awareness According to C. G. Jung and the Eight- Thousand-Line Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, pg. 152*Knowledge and the Tradition Text in Indian Philosophy, pg. 165*The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy, pg. 174*Sankara and Narayana Guru, pg. 184*Is There Philosophy in Asia?, pg. 203*Chu Hsi and World Philosophy, pg. 230*Confucius and the Ontology of Knowing, pg. 265*Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions, pg. 280*Neoconfucianism as Traditional and Modern, pg. 294*CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 311*INDEX, pg. 313
