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George Anastaplo has written brilliantly and persuasively about ancient and modern Western political philosophy and literature and about American Constitutional history and law. With his latest book Anastaplo turns away from his areas of admitted expertise to offer, in his own words, 'the explorations of a determined amateur with some practice in reading.' The essays contained in this volume were originally conceived as a set of seminars, each culminating in a public lecture, which in turn formed the basis for contributions to Encyclopedia Brittanica's 1961-1998 series The Great Ideas Today. Gathered in this one volume, But Not Philosophy provides useful and thought-provoking introductions to seven major 'schools' of non-Western thought: Mesopotamian, ancient African, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic, and North American Indian. Anastaplo studies ancient literary epics and legal codes and examines religious traditions and systems of thought, providing detailed references to authoritative histories and commentators. Movingly and thoughtfully written, the essays encourage readers to bring their own Western traditions under similar scrutiny, to study our own grasp of the divine, reliance upon nature and causality, and dependence on philosophy-to learn about what we are from what we are not.
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Philosophy History & TheoryTable of contents
- BY GEORGE ANASTAPLO
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter One - Mesopotamian Thought: The Gilgamesh Epic
- Chapter Two - “Ancient” African (Including Egyptian) Thought
- Chapter Three - Hindu Thought: The Bhagavad Gītā
- Chapter Four - Confucian Thought: The Analects
- Chapter Five - Buddhist Thought
- Chapter Six - Islamic Thought: The Koran
- Chapter Seven - North American Indian Thought
- Appendix A - On Beginnings
- Appendix B - On the Human Soul, Nature, and the Moral Virtues
- Appendix C - On the Use, Neglect, and Abuse of Veils: The Parliaments of the World’s Religions
- Index
- About the Author
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