Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy by Stephen R. Palmquist

March 16, 2017 adminReligious Spiritual Eastern Philosophy

By Stephen R. Palmquist

Authors from around the globe unite with a view to domesticate discussion among Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a brand new, East-West comparative direction most often diversity of matters in Kant reports. the idea that of personhood, an important for either traditions, serves as a springboard to handle concerns equivalent to wisdom acquisition and schooling, ethics and self-identity, religious/political neighborhood development, and cross-cultural knowing. Edited by way of Stephen Palmquist, founding father of the Hong Kong Philosophy Café and renowned for either his Kant services and his devotion to fostering philosophical discussion, the e-book provides chosen and remodeled papers from the 1st ever Kant Congress in Hong Kong, held in may perhaps 2009.Among others the members are Patricia Kitcher (New York urban, USA), Günther Wohlfahrt (Wuppertal, Germany), Cheng Chung-ying (Hawaii, USA), Sammy Xie Xia-ling (Shanghai, China), Lau Chong-fuk (Hong Kong), Anita Ho (Vancouver/Kelowna, Canada), Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong), Pong Wen-berng (Taipei, Taiwan), Simon Xie Shengjian (Melbourne, Australia), Makoto Suzuki (Aichi, Japan), Kiyoshi Himi (Mie, Japan), Park Chan-Goo (Seoul, South Korea), Chong Chaeh-yun (Seoul, South Korea), Mohammad Raayat Jahromi (Tehran, Iran), Mohsen Abhari Javadi (Qom, Iran), Soraj Hongladarom (Bangkok, Thailand), Ruchira Majumdar (Kolkata, India), A.T. Nuyen (Singapore), Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong), Christian Wenzel (Taipei, Taiwan), Mario Wenning (Macau).

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