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Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization

Reintroducing Philosophy: Thinking as the Gathering of Civilization

Shaker, Anthony F.

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy

PhilosophyIslamGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1622738373
ISBN13: 9781622738373
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: Sep 14 2020
Pages: 770
Weight: 2.59
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

That we are now entering a post-Western world is no longer merely a thesis in international studies. But what does the dissolution of Western hegemony signify for humanity's rich learning traditions and the civilizing quest for wisdom? How can this human inheritance assist us today?

Reintroducing Philosophy seeks a more realistic framework for discourse on these questions than offered by the Western-centric worldview, which continues to be taught in schools almost by rote. It analyzes themes from several world traditions in logic, knowledge and metaphysics connected with the quest for completeness of thinking and practice. Its examination of the relation of knowing and being is based on sources as varied as Leibniz and Frege, Qūnawī and Ṣadrā, ancient Greek and classical Indian and Chinese thought. Shaker brings into the discussion the paradigm (unmūzaj) that Ṣadrā presented as that of man's being in the world, encapsulating philosophy's longstanding view of thinking as the gathering of civilization.

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