<p>A travel guide to comparative philosophy which focuses upon the concern for meaning and the corresponding development of thinking methodologies in certain Greco-European, Indian, and Chinese philosophical systems. In addition to outlining the presuppositions of different traditions, it discusses their methods and techniques for reasoning in what the author calls four dimensions of philosophizing space an object dimension, a subject dimension, a situational dimension, and an aspective/perspective dimension. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.</p>

An Introduction to Comparative Philosophy: A Travel Guide to Philosophical Space

Politics & Social Sciences

Walter Benesch

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>A Chinese philosopher in the Fourth Century BCE was known for his claim that "a chicken has three legs." He was not hallucinating, nor are Chinese chickens different from the chickens of other nations. What the philosopher understood was that this "third leg" was the mental leg or concept of "chicken leg" that tells an observer that what he or she is seeing is a "two-legged chicken." This "idea leg" is in the mind of the beholder, and it is a paradoxical synthesis of perception and conception, of seeing and not seeing, of the possible and the impossible. Each story in this book is a three-legged chicken story that starts with statements found in philosophical and religious traditions from around the world, and then examines a "mind egg" that such a chicken might conceivably lay. All similarities to poultry--living or dead--are purely coincidental.</p>

The Ecumenical Cruise and Other Three-Legged Chicken Philosophy Tales

Literature & Fiction

United States

Nonetheless Press

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