Author: Karyn Lai
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: philosophies, world, series, ashgate, contextualised, interdependent, chinese, ethics, learning
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754633829
ISBN-13: 9780754633822

"Learning from Chinese Philosophies" engages Confucian and Daoist philosophies in creative interplay, developing a theory of interdependent selfhood in the two philosophical traditions. Karyn Lai draws on the unique insights of the two philosophies to address contemporary debates on ethics, community, and government. The issues discussed include questions on selfhood, attachment, moral development, government, culture, and tradition, and feminist queries regarding biases and dualism in ethics. Throughout the book, Lai demonstrates that Chinese philosophies embody novel and insightful ideas for

Author: Aswath Damodaran
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: investment, philosophies, made, work, greatest, successful, investors
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-01-20
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0471345032
ISBN-13: 9780471345039

"Damodaran is a well-informed scholar with a gift for organized, clearly written syntheses of complex topics in modern finance. With Investment Philosophies he provides the uncensored facts about winning in the market place. If you are a fund manager, an investor, or simply a student of finance, you will want to read this book." -Tom Copeland Managing Director of Corporate Finance, Monitor Group "Professor Damodaran has zeroed in on the most important missing element of many investment management processes: a clearly defined investment philosophy which can serve as a beacon in d

Author: David Burto
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: world, philosophies, series, ashgate, study, knowledge, liberation, philosophical, buddhism
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0754604365
ISBN-13: 9780754604365

Buddhism is essentially a teaching about liberation - from suffering, ignorance, selfishness and continued rebirth. Knowledge of "the way things really are" is thought by many Buddhists to be vital in bringing about this emancipation. This book is a philosophical study of the notion of liberating knowledge as it occurs in a range of Buddhist sources. The book assesses the common Buddhist idea that knowledge of the three characteristics of existence (impermanence, not-self and suffering) is the key to liberation. It argues that this claim must be seen in the context of the Buddhist path and tra

Author: Muhammad Kamal
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: world, philosophies, series, ashgate, philosophy, sadra, transcendent, mulla
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2006-02
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0754652718
ISBN-13: 9780754652717

Sadradin Shirazi (1571 - 1640), known also as Mulla Sadra, spoke of the primacy of Being and promoted a new ontology, founding a new epistemology. Mulla Sadra’s ontology is an important philosophical turn and contribution to the understanding of the development of Muslim philosophy and thought. This comprehensive study of Mulla Sadra’s philosophical thought explores his departure from tradition; his turn to the doctrine of the primacy of Being; the dynamic characteristics of Being and the concept of substantial change; comparisons with Heidegger’s fundamental ontology; and th

Author: Simon P. James
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: world, philosophies, series, ashgate, ethics, buddhism, environmental, zen
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2004-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0754613682
ISBN-13: 9780754613688

Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics explores the implications of Zen Buddhist teachings and practices for our moral relations with the natural world. At once an accessible introduction to Zen and an important contribution to the debate concerning the environmental implications of the tradition, this book will appeal both to readers unfamiliar with East Asian thought and to those well versed in the field. In elucidating the philosophical implications of Zen, the author draws upon both Eastern and Western philosophy, situating the Zen understanding of nature within the Buddhist tradition,

Author: Phillip Cole
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: exclusion, philosophies
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 074861219X
ISBN-13: 9780748612192

This comprehensive overview offers a radical critique of various positions within political philosophy on immigration. Cole argues that there is a serious gap between the legal and social practices of immigration and naturalization in liberal democratic states and the theoretical justification for such practices within the tradition of liberal political philosophy. The book examines various responses to this contradiction, and finds none of them satisfactory, arguing that this has serious implications both for liberal practice and theory.

Author: John Little
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: lee, bruce, philosophies, warrior
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-04-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0809231948
ISBN-13: 9780809231942

During his lifetime, legendary martial artist Bruce Lee formulated a complex personal philosophy--a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideals--that extolled the virtues of knowledge and total mastery of one’s self. However, most of his philosophical writings could be found only within the personal library of the Bruce Lee estate--until now. The Warrior Within is the most comprehensive volume of these teachings, meant to help you apply Lee’s philosophies to your own life. This unique guide reveals such life-affirming secrets as: Seeing the totality of life and putting things into pe