Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects by David Jones

The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine: 102 (Philosophy and Medicine)

Regenerative drugs is wealthy with promethean offers. using human embryonic stem cells in learn is justified through its advocates by way of gives you to healing a variety of illnesses and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the result of middle assaults and spinal wire accidents. extra extensively, there's the promethean attract of having the ability to revamp human organic nature by way of the targets and matters of people.

Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy: Tsongkhapa's Quest for the Middle Way (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

The paintings explores the historic and highbrow context of Tsongkhapa's philosophy and addresses the severe matters regarding questions of improvement and originality in Tsongkhapa's concept. It additionally bargains greatly with considered one of Tsongkhapa's basic matters, specifically his makes an attempt to illustrate that the center means philosophy's deconstructive research doesn't negate the truth of the standard global.

Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy

Authors from world wide unite with a view to domesticate discussion among Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a brand new, East-West comparative course frequently diversity of concerns in Kant reports. the idea that of personhood, an important for either traditions, serves as a springboard to handle concerns similar to wisdom acquisition and schooling, ethics and self-identity, religious/political group development, and cross-cultural realizing.

Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings (Chinese-Western Discourse)

Like artists, very important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a worldly author, deeply rooted within the chinese language prior whereas prompted via paragons of Western modernity. the current quantity brings jointly for the 1st time a set of essays at the subject matters of freedom and destiny within the inventive works of Gao Xingjian.