Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. Introduction: The “Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other” 1
5. Metaphor as Key to Understanding the Thought of Other Speech Communities 19
6. Against Relativism 36
7. Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought to Be 71
8. The Contextual Fallacy 84
9. Śaṅkara, Nāgārjuna, and Fa Tsang, with Some Western Analogues 98
10. What Is Comparative Philosophy Comparing? 116
11. The Meaning of the Terms ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Religion’ in Various Traditions 137
12. Mechanisms of Self-Deception and True Awareness According to C. G. Jung and the Eight- Thousand-Line Perfection of Wisdom Sutra 152
13. Knowledge and the Tradition Text in Indian Philosophy 165
14. The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy 174
15. Śaṅkara and Nārāyana Guru 184
16. Is There Philosophy in Asia? 203
17. Chu Hsi and World Philosophy 230
18. Confucius and the Ontology of Knowing 265
19. Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions 280
20. Neoconfucianism as Traditional and Modern 294
21. CONTRIBUTORS 311
22. INDEX 313