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ISBN10: 9622014127, ISBN13: 9789622014121, [publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press] Hardcover
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Date: 1988. Hardcover. Good. 1988. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ISBN 9622014127 9789622014121 [NL]

ISBN10: 9622014127, ISBN13: 9789622014121, [publisher: The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong] Softcover Paperback. This volume is intended for professional philosophers and laymen with an interest in East-West studies and comparative philosophy and religion. The central focus is the concept of comparing perspectives from both the Eastern and the Western philosophical traditions on harmony and strife. The unique and happy result is an East-West anthology which is directed at analyzing a single philosophical problem which is of importance to both traditions. Unlike many anthologies which tend to be collections of isolated and unrelated essays, the Editors' focus on a single theme has resulted in a unified volume which maintains a high continuity of interest throughout. The Editors have carefully culled and organized essays from a select group of philosophers from the United States, West Germany, Japan, Australia, Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong. Harmony and strife are analyzed as systematic concepts in Western philosophy, as parts of classical Chinese thought, as central concepts in Buddhism, as metaphysical concepts, as dialectical concepts and even as null concepts. The Editors have taken great care so that a continuity and a coherence of presentation is achieved despite the striking variety of perspectives from which harmony and strife are analyzed. It is both unusual and important to have such a systematic and thorough investigation of a topic of paramount soci ...