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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
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Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy
In 1962, Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) was asked about the political implications of his ethics and the possible similarity between his philosophy and...
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The Study of Indian Philosophy in the Work of Arvind Sharma (with Particular Reference to Advaita Vedānta)
This essay explores the role of the Advaita Vedānta philosophy of Hinduism in Arvind Sharma’s numerous works on Indian philosophy. It argues that the...
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The Yogavāsiṣṭha and the Philosophy of the Absurd: A Hindu Response to the Heart’s Cry
In this article, I call attention to the Yogavāsiṣṭha’s depiction of Rāma’s existential crisis and Vasiṣṭha’s various methods for resolving it....
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Extracting a Humanisitic Philosophy of Social and Environmental Well-being from the Bhagavad-gītā
This essay aims at articulating a humanistic philosophy of social and environmental well-being out of the Bhagavad-gītā . It points at the limits of...
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Shifting Śāstric Śiva: Co-operating Epic Mythology and Philosophy in India’s Classical Period
This study accounts for disparate portrayals of divine destroyer Śiva in the normative Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata as opposed to Kālidāsa’s amatory Kumārasaṃbhava...
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Confucianism: The Philosophy of Edification
Philosophy is highly specialized. The special spiritual characteristic of Confucianism, a philosophy or metaphysics, is “edification.” Confucian...
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African Traditional Religion and African Philosophy
“Philosophy,” Aristotle once declared, “is the product of ‘wonder.’” This critical activity that is peculiar only to man instantiates a wave of...
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Sri Chinmoy’s Philosophy of Nature
This paper offers a constructive account of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy of Nature and the environment, in the context of the modern stream of Vedāntic...
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Global Peace and Development: Toward a New Anthropology and Philosophy of World Spheres
Peace is linked with development—development which is not destructive but constructive. Peace and development start with each one of us and it...
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Introduction: Ethics and Philosophy, African Women’s Perspective
This book maps the philosophical and ethical paradigms African women proposed in propagating liberation theology. Through the Circle of Concerned...
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Ethics and Philosophy of Anne Nasimiyu Wasike
Most intellectual work proceeds from deliberate perspectives that shape interpretations and resultant actions from different authored ideas. This...
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Ethics, Gender, and Philosophy of Puleng LenkaBula
This chapter explores Puleng LenkaBula’s contribution to African feminist ethics and theologies, highlighting her emphasis on realizing economic...
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William James’ Ineffable ‘More’: In Philosophy of Language and Neuroscience
Laura Weed argues in this article that William James’ ‘overbelief’ conception of religious experience as originating in an ‘ineffable more’ which...
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Constructive Theology and Philosophy of Race, Part I
This chapter demonstrates that those philosophies that most influence Constructive Theology—those that emerge out of Kant’s and Hegel’s...
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Constructive Theology and Philosophy of Race, Part II
This chapter examines “whiteness” as an epistemological formation, a mode of knowing, unknowing, and mis-knowing that crafts a historical, political,...
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Environmental Philosophy of Buddhism
This chapter is directly concerned with Buddhist contributions to environmental responsibility as ethics and culture and links environmentalism with...
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Revisiting Śākta Advaita: The Monistic Śākta Philosophy in the Guhyopaniṣad
Śākti worship is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Autochthonous Śākta practices vary village to village, with differing rituals and theologies....