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East-West Studies on the Problem of the Self

Papers presented at the Conference on Comparative Philosophy and Culture held at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, April 22–24, 1965

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  1. P. T. Raju
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Towards a More Comprehensive Concept of the Person

    • F. S. C. Northrop
    Pages 1-12

  3. Love, Self, and Contemporary Culture

    • Richard McKeon
    Pages 13-33

  4. The Problem of Immortality

    • Paul Tillich
    Pages 34-43

  5. Free Will, the Creativity of God, and Order

    • Peter A. Bertocci
    Pages 44-60

  6. Other Persons, Other Things

    • Richard Hocking
    Pages 61-70

  7. The Concept of Rational Animal

    • Alburey Castell
    Pages 71-86

  8. The Self in Mu’tazilah Thought

    • Isma‘īl Rāgī A. Al Fārūqī
    Pages 87-107

  9. Unity: Appearance and Reality

    • Mirza Qadeer Baig
    Pages 108-120

  10. Variants in the Concepts of the Self in the Islamic Tradition

    • Harold B. Smith
    Pages 121-132

  11. Is There a Soul or no Soul? The Buddha Refused to Answer. Why?

    • Archie J. Bahm
    Pages 133-141

  12. Śankara’s Interpretation of the Self and its Influence on Later Indian Thought

    • A. K. Sarkar
    Pages 142-155

  13. Person and Moral Life

    • K. Venkata Ramanan
    Pages 156-162

  14. The Self as Discovery and Creation in Western and Indian Philosophy

    • Troy Organ
    Pages 163-176

  15. The Bhagavad Gītā and the Book of Job on the Problem of the Self

    • James Norton
    Pages 177-192

  16. Pre-Existence

    • Karl H. Potter
    Pages 193-207

  17. Approaches to the I-Consciousness: Its Depths, Normal and Abnormal

    • P. T. Raju
    Pages 208-225

  18. Concern for the Person

    • Sterling M. McMurrin
    Pages 226-234
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The general characteristics of the decades after the last World War, so far as the human situation goes, include two phenomena: these decades are marked by man's dissatisfaction with himself, his confession of ignorance of himself, his anxiety about his future, and also his earnest search for the ground of his being, which can give him a feeling of security with reference to his life here and hereafter; they are also marked by man's pride about his achievements in science and tech­ nology, a hope of a better life on earth, and a faith in himself as capable of engineering the individual and society for realizing peace, harmony, and happiness for all men. The contemporary thinking man is conscious of the predicament these two kinds of characteristics have created for him, admits failures, hopes for improvements, and works for them. In carrying out this work, he has to and wants to know what human life is, what the meaning and purpose of life are, and why his struggles and achievements have not succeeded in giving every man a reasonable amount of comfort and happiness. He has come to realize also that the accumulation of material comforts does not necessarily lead to happi­ ness, although happiness for man - except for the monk, fakir, or sannyiisin - is not possible without material comforts. Here we have the problem.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: East-West Studies on the Problem of the Self

  • Book Subtitle: Papers presented at the Conference on Comparative Philosophy and Culture held at the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, April 22–24, 1965

  • Editors: P. T. Raju, Alburey Castell

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0615-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1968

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-0134-7Published: 01 January 1968

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-0615-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 234

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Regional and Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature

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