Philosophical Questions: East and West

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This work seeks to raise some important questions regarding comparative philosophy and sets out to provide students with an unprejudiced anthology of source material derived from the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Western intellectual traditions. Each section begins with an introductory essay in which the leading questions and their responses from different traditions are presented in overview. The book should be useful for courses in philosophy, religion and the humanities.

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Bina Gupta is professor of philosophy and director of the South Asia Studies Area and Language Center at the University of Missouri.

J. N. Mohanty is professor of philosophy at Temple University and is internationally known for his work in the area of Indian philosophy and Western phenomenology. He is the author of Transcendental Phenomenology (1989) and Classical Indian Philosophy.