Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VI
3. Foreword IX
4. Preface XI
5. Greetings XVII
6. Introduction: The conference, the problem, the program 1
7. Section I. Metaphysics
8. The world and the individual in Chinese metaphysics 21
9. The status of the individual in Indian metaphysics 47
10. The status of the individual in Theravāda Buddhist philosophy 65
11. The status of the individual in Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy 77
12. A brief note on individuality in East and West 91
13. Section II. Methodology
14. The individual and the world in Chinese methodology 99
15. Indian epistemology and the world and the individual 121
16. Consciousness of the individual and the universal among the Japanese 141
17. Knowledge, skepticism, and the individual 161
18. Section III. Religion
19. The individual in Chinese religions 179
20. The world and the individual in Indian religious thought 199
21. The status of the individual in Islam 217
22. The appearance of individual self-consciousness in Japanese religions and its historical transformations 227
23. The individual and the Judeo-Christian tradition 251
24. Section IV. Ethics
25. The status of the individual in Chinese ethics 269
26. The individual in Indian ethics 285
27. The individual in Japanese ethics 301
28. The status of the person in Western ethics 317
29. Section V. Social Thought and Practices
30. The status of the individual in Chinese social thought and practice 331
31. The individual in social thought and practice in India 347
32. The status and role of the individual in Japanese society 361
33. Searches for agreement by persuasion 377
34. Section VI. Legal and Political Thought and Institutions
35. The status of the individual in the political and legal traditions of old and new China 389
36. The individual in the legal and political thought and institutions of India 411
37. The status of the individual in the notion of law, right, and social order in Japan 429
38. Legal status of individuals 449
39. The individual in law and in legal philosophy in the West 453
40. About the political status of the contemporary individual in the West 473
41. Appendix
42. Public Lectures
43. The individual in American philosophy 486
44. The individual and the universal in East and West 503
45. The individual person in Zen 519
46. Summary and Concluding Remarks
47. The individual in East and West: review and synthesis 534
48. Concluding remarks 547
49. Who's Who 577
50. Index 601