Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World
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Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World: How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures

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In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. This essential resource introduces us to the multitude of ways philosophers make sense of things. Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish meso-American traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different thought worlds into conversation, including: - The Xunzi and Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed - Spinoza and Wang Bi on substance and change - The Mayan Popul Vuh and Ibn Arabi on the human role in constructing the cosmos - Kukai and Gregory Palamas on essence and energy On the basis of this exceptionally rich and diverse canvas, they reflect on the connections between reality, emptiness, mind and consciousness, asking questions of enduring human significance such as: What is realness? What is beyond the real? What is personhood? How do we order our world? How should we live? Crossing cultures, languages, and history, the authors’ inclusive approach liberates the tradition of metaphysics and comparative philosophy from the constraints of a Western or Eurocentric interpretation.

Table of Contents:
FOREWORD (Adrian Moore) INTRODUCTION (Stephen Green) PART 1 Chapter 1: Philosophising While Reading Texts Across Cultures Alex Samely Chapter 2: Dao and The Way--A Comparative Perspective Xinzhong Yao Chapter 3: Generative Harmony: Origins and Becoming in Confucian Metaphysics Chenyang Li Chapter 4: The Problem of the Flying Arrow: Comparing Hui Shi and Zeno of Elea Using the Method of Sublation Jana S. Rošker Chapter 5: Xunzi and Maimonides: Language, Metaphysics, Governance Nicholas Bunnin Chapter 6: Metaphysics of Normative Values: Metaethical Constructivism and Xunzi Siufu TANG Chapter 7: Spinoza and Wang Bi: Metaphysics of Ethics Nicholas Bunnin Chapter 8: Personhood in Indian Metaphysics: Touch points with Other Traditions Gavin Flood Chapter 9: Metaphysics of a Hindu Goddess Tradition and European Phenomenology Gavin Flood Chapter 10: Brilliant Darkness: Apophatic Thinking in Early Christian and Indian traditions Ana- Maria Pascal and Diwakar Acharya Chapter 11: Overcoming Negative Theology: Kukai and Palamason Essence and Energy Ana- Maria Pascal and Paulus Kaufmann Chapter 12: God without Power - Kenosis and Tsimtsum as Two Paradigms of Divine Self- Restriction Agata Bielik-Robson Chapter 13: Philosophy and African Art: Leopold Sedar Senghor and the Philosophy of Emotion and Rhythm Victor Emma-Adamah Chapter 14: The Non-Human in African Metaphysics Elvis Imafidon Chapter 15: The Divine Names: The Human Role in Construction of the Cosmos in the Maya Popol Vuh and Ibn Arabi’s Fusus al-Hikam Alexus McLeod Chapter 16: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Spiritual Exercises Sajjad Rizvi PART 2 Chapter 1: Suchness Lucia Dolce Chapter 2: Beyond, Being, and Becoming Agata Bielik-Robson Chapter 3: Persons, Selves, and Metaphysics Ana-Maria Pascal and Gavin Flood Chapter 4: Names, Naming, Unnamed, Unnameable Nicholas Bunnin and Sajjad Rizvi FORWARD: CONTINUING TO DOMETAPHYSICS IN A DIVERSE WORLD Stephen Green LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350402492
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Width: 169 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1350402494
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures


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