Double Bali: Shiva & Buddha, Sekala & Niskala, Black & White by Atma Ananda

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

Regenerative drugs is wealthy with promethean grants. using human embryonic stem cells in examine is justified through its advocates when it comes to can provide to healing quite a lot of ailments and disabilities, from Alzheimer’s and Parkinsonism to the result of middle assaults and spinal wire accidents. extra largely, there's the promethean attract of having the ability to revamp human organic nature when it comes to the pursuits 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 concerns regarding questions of improvement and originality in Tsongkhapa's proposal. It additionally bargains widely with one in all Tsongkhapa's basic matters, particularly his makes an attempt to illustrate that the center approach philosophy's deconstructive research doesn't negate the truth of the typical international.

Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy

Authors from around the world unite on the way to domesticate discussion among Asian and Western philosophy. The papers forge a brand new, East-West comparative course as a rule variety of matters in Kant stories. the idea that of personhood, the most important for either traditions, serves as a springboard to deal with matters akin to wisdom acquisition and schooling, ethics and self-identity, religious/political neighborhood construction, and cross-cultural realizing.

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

Like artists, vital writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a worldly author, deeply rooted within the chinese language earlier whereas stimulated by way of paragons of Western modernity. the current quantity brings jointly for the 1st time a set of essays at the issues of freedom and destiny within the inventive works of Gao Xingjian.