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Wisdom and philosophy : contemporary and comparative approaches / edited by Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xii, 225 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1474248691
  • 9781474248693
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 109 23
LOC classification:
  • B21 .W57 2016
Contents:
1. Introduction / Andrew Whitehead -- Part I. Chinese Wisdom : -- 1. The Wisdom of Charioteering (Yu?): Old Practice, New Perspectives / Robin R. Wang -- 2. Lessons from Stupidity: Wisdom and the "Man from Song" / Jim Behuniak -- 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Wisdom in the Chinese Tradition / Karl-Heinz Pohl -- Part II. Wisdom Compared : -- 4. The Philosopher or the Sage? Apophaticism in Europe and China / William Franke -- 5. Wisdom as Knowledge and Wisdom as Action: Plato, Heidegger, Cicero, and Confucius / Allen Miller -- 6. Anonymous Sages: Some Sino-Greco Comparisons / Geir Sigurðsson -- 7. Seeking Wisdom with Aristotle and Zhu Xi / May Sim -- 8. Wisdom as Realisation: Heidegger and Zhuangzi on Belonging in the World / Steven Burik-- Part III. Contemporary Wisdom : -- 9. Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice: An Old Idea Whose Time has Come / Sean McGrath -- 10. Wise Questions / Wes DeMarco -- 11. Future-Oriented Philosophy and Wisdom East and West / Martin Schonfeld -- 12. Conceptual Metaphors and the Goals of Philosophy / Victoria S. Harrison -- Index.
Summary: "Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches questions the nature of the relationship between wisdom and philosophy from an intercultural perspective. Bringing together an international mix of respected philosophers, this volume discusses similarities and differences of Western and Asian pursuits of wisdom and reflects on attempts to combine them."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Andrew Whitehead -- Part I. Chinese Wisdom : -- 1. The Wisdom of Charioteering (Yu?): Old Practice, New Perspectives / Robin R. Wang -- 2. Lessons from Stupidity: Wisdom and the "Man from Song" / Jim Behuniak -- 3. Speaking the Unspeakable: Wisdom in the Chinese Tradition / Karl-Heinz Pohl -- Part II. Wisdom Compared : -- 4. The Philosopher or the Sage? Apophaticism in Europe and China / William Franke -- 5. Wisdom as Knowledge and Wisdom as Action: Plato, Heidegger, Cicero, and Confucius / Allen Miller -- 6. Anonymous Sages: Some Sino-Greco Comparisons / Geir Sigurðsson -- 7. Seeking Wisdom with Aristotle and Zhu Xi / May Sim -- 8. Wisdom as Realisation: Heidegger and Zhuangzi on Belonging in the World / Steven Burik-- Part III. Contemporary Wisdom : -- 9. Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice: An Old Idea Whose Time has Come / Sean McGrath -- 10. Wise Questions / Wes DeMarco -- 11. Future-Oriented Philosophy and Wisdom East and West / Martin Schonfeld -- 12. Conceptual Metaphors and the Goals of Philosophy / Victoria S. Harrison -- Index.

"Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches questions the nature of the relationship between wisdom and philosophy from an intercultural perspective. Bringing together an international mix of respected philosophers, this volume discusses similarities and differences of Western and Asian pursuits of wisdom and reflects on attempts to combine them."--Publisher's website.

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