On Metaphoring
On Metaphoring

Author: Wu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-05-20

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 900445327X

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Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.

The Pulse of Wisdom
The Pulse of Wisdom

Author: Michael C. Brannigan

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Clearly written for the beginning student, this text provides an introduction to Asian philosophy as found in India, China, and Japan. Its thematic approach covers the most significant questions in the areas of Oriental metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics as it successfully integrates historical and regional approaches. In addition to providing a solid basis for a sound grasp of the major teachings and leading figures and schools in Oriental thought, readings from Indian, Chinese, and Japanese sources help the student gain some familiarity with primary sources.