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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462541003321

Autore

Mall Ram Adhar <1937->

Titolo

Intercultural philosophy / / Ram Adhar Mall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

9786613929549

1-4616-3782-1

1-283-61709-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Philosophy and the global context

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Philosophy

Culture - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Intercultural Philosophy-A Conceptual Clarification; Preliminary Remarks; The Hermeneutic Situation Today; Culture and Philosophy; The Concept of Intercultural Philosophy; Cultural Encounters; Interculturality Before Multiculturality; Philosophy and Interculturality; Notes; Chapter 2: Toward a Theory of an Analogous Hermeneutics; Preliminary Remarks; The Concept of Interculturality; The Concept of an Analogous Intercultural Hermeneutics; Toward an Ethos of Interculturality

Asia Versus Europe or Universism Versus UniversalismNotes; Chapter 3: Hermeneutics of the One Under Different Names; Universality and Particularity; Original Context; The Import of the Vedic Dictum Today; The Idea of ""Religio Perennis""; The Vedic Dictum and the Idea of ""Philosophia Perennis""; Toward a Metonymic Theory of One Truth Under different Names; Notes; Chapter 4: Intercultural Philosophy and Postmodernity; The De Facto Hermeneutic Situation; The Concept of Interculturality; The Concept of Postmodernity; Interculturality and Postmodernity

Modernity, Postmodernity, Interculturality, and beyondNotes; Chapter



5: An Intercultural Philosophy of Unity without Uniformity; Preliminary Remarks; The Principle of Unity; A Critical Examination of Hegel's Philosophy of Unity; Toward a Concept of a Nonreductive, open, and Normative Hermeneutics; Chapter 6: Two Metaphors of Time-Arrow and Time-Cycle; The Thesis Defended; An Empirico-Phenomenological Approach; Time-Arrow and Time-Cycle; A Critical Comparison; Three Factors in Time Consciousness; An Intercultural Perspective; Temporality and Historicity; Concluding Remarks; Notes

Chapter 7: Metonymic Reflections on Shamkara's Concept of Brahman and Plato's Seventh EpistlePreliminary Remarks; Shamkara's Concept of the Nondual, the Nirguna Brahman; Plato's Concept of the One and the Good (Hen and Agathon) and His Epistle VII; Shamkara and Plato Compared and Contrasted; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Chapter 8: The God of Phenomenology in Comparative Contrast to Those of Philosophy and Theology; Husserl's Religious Leanings; Husserl's Concept of Teleology; Two Paths to God: The Historical and the Philosophical

The Program of Phenomenology in Relation to Teleology and TheologyPhenomenology of Religion; Hume, Husserl, and Hegel; Husserl and Scheler; Husserl's Phenomenology and the Problem of God's Transcendence and Immanence; Husserl, the Phenomenologist, and Husserl, the Believer; Notes; Chapter 9: The Concept of the Absolute-An Intercultural Perspective; Preliminary Remarks; Toward the Concept of an Overlapping Absolute; An Interreligious Hermeneutics; Philosophy of Values and the Absolute in Indian Thought; An Intercultural Concept of Tolerance; Notes

Chapter 10: Europe in the Mirror of World Cultures-On the Myth of the Europeanization of Humanity: A Non-European Discovery of Europe

Sommario/riassunto

The meeting of different cultures, philosophies and religions today calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the part of all concerned. Intercultural Philosophy seeks to develop such a discourse through a new orientation of thought that will allow for a discussion of all philosophical problems from an intercultural perspective. Arguing that no conceptual or terminological system should be unnecessarily privileged, Mall perceives intercultural philosophy as a stance taken in order to prevent any particular form from assuming an absolute position. In this important work he develo