Synopses & Reviews
The influence of East on West - of Eastern ideas on Western thought - has become an increasingly vexed issue in recent times. Opinion is divided between two main schools: those who believe that Oriental ideas have exercised a considerable influence on Western thought, and those who, for a variety of reasons, believe that such influence has remained negligible.In this Reader A. L. Macfie suggests that the reality lies somewhere between these two extremes, and that the interest taken by Western thinkers in Eastern thought in the modern period has moved from one of passing interest, through serious attention, to some level of assimilation and acceptance.Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. As such it is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental in
Synopsis
This Reader explores the extent of Oriental influence on European thought, primarily in the period of the Enlightenment and the nineteenth-century period of doubt and scepticism that followed it. It is the first Reader to bring together in one place a series of specific historical and textual studies of Oriental influence upon European thinkers.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-341) and index.
Table of Contents
Malebranche and Chinese philosophy / David E. Mungello -- The pre-established harmony between Leibniz and Chinese thought / Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont -- The sinophilism of Christian Wolff (1679-1754) / Donald F. Lach -- Voltaire, sinophile / Basil Guy -- The possibility of oriental influence in Hume's philosophy / Nolan Pliny Jacobson -- Herder and German Romanticism / Ronald Taylor -- Hegel / Wilhelm Halbfass -- Schelling and Schopenhauer / Wilhelm Halbfass -- The influences of eastern thought on Schopenhauer's doctrine of the thing-in-itself / Moira Nicholls -- Emerson and Indian philosophy / Dale Riepe -- Thoreau's India: the impact of reading in a crisis / David H. Albert -- Thoreau's Hindu quotations in A week / Ellen M. Raghavan and Barry Wood -- Nietzsche's trans-European eye / Mervyn Sprung -- Nietzsche and the laws of Manu / Thomas H. Brobjer -- Taoism and Jung: synchronicity and the self / Harold Coward -- Martin Buber and Taoism / Irene Eber -- Heidegger's hidden sources: East Asian influences on his work / Reinhard May.