A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy

<p><em>A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy </em>is the first of its kind bringing together sixty leading contemporary philosophers and translators to highlight the depth diversity and creativity of global philosophical traditions. It does so by featuring the major ideas themes and arguments of Africana Buddhist Confucian Hindu Islamic Jain Jewish Latin American Mesoamerican Native American and Taoist philosophy through translations of nearly one hundred philosophical texts from sixteen different languages (namely Arabic Aramaic Chinese French Hebrew Japanese Judeo-Arabic Korean Maasai Mayan Persian Sanskrit Spanish Tibetan Turkish and Urdu). The volume also contains several key works of global philosophy originally written in English. Topics covered include metaphysics cosmology epistemology philosophy of language logic ethics storytelling philosophy of religion selfhood death and freedom. </p><p></p><p><em>A Sourcebook in Global Philosophy </em>will prove to be indispensable to all students and teachers of philosophy religion and comparative literature.</p><p></p>