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World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction
World Philosophies An Historical Introduction Author:David E. Cooper This volume is an introduction to the main philosophical systems developed from the time of ancient India, China and Greece up to the present day. These systems are viewed as attempts, above all, to provide integrated accounts of the place of human beings within the wider order of things, and to determine in the light of these accounts the prope... more »r conduct of human life. Among the philosophies discussed are Vedanta, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Thomism, mysticism, Cartesianism, idealism, pragmatism, logical postivism, existentialism and postmodernism. This textbook is for use on all courses in comparative philosophy, multicultural philosophy and the history of philosophy, East and West.« less