Wisdom and Philosophy: Contemporary and Comparative Approaches

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.Contributors cover topics such as Confucian ethics, the acquisition of wisdom in pre-Qin literature and anecdotes of stupidity in the classical Chinese tradition, while also addressing contemporary topics such as global Buddhism and analytic metaphysics. Providing original examples of comparative philosophy, contributors look at ideas and arguments of thinkers such as Confucius, Zhuangzi and Zhu Xi alongside the work of Aristotle, Plato and Heidegger. Presenting Asian perspectives on philosophy as practical wisdom, Wisdom and Philosophy is a rare intercultural inquiry into the relation between wisdom and philosophy. It provides new ways of understanding how wisdom connects to philosophy and underlines the need to reintroduce it into philosophy today.>

About the author

Hans-Georg Moeller is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau in Macau SAR, China.Andrew K. Whitehead is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Hans-Georg Moeller, Hans-Georg Whitehead Moeller, Andrew K Whitehead
• Assisted by: Hans-Georg Moeller (Editor), Gerhard Richter (Editor), Andrew Whitehead (Editor), Andrew K. Whitehead (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781474248693
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-4869-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Non-Western philosophy, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge