Intercultural Philosophy

The meeting of different cultures, philosophies and religions today calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the part of all concerned. Intercultural Philosophy seeks to develop such a discourse through a new orientation of thought that will allow for a discussion of all philosophical problems from an intercultural perspective. Arguing that no conceptual or terminological system should be unnecessarily privileged, Mall perceives intercultural philosophy as a stance taken in order to prevent any particular form from assuming an absolute position. In this important work he develops a new concept of intercultural philosophy and applies it to various philosophical disciplines.

Ram Adhar Mall is professor of philosophy at Bremen University, Germany.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xi

Intercultural Philosophy---A Conceptual Clarification

1

(12)

Preliminary Remarks

1

(1)

The Hermeneutic Situation Today

2

(2)

Culture and Philosophy

4

(1)

The Concept of Intercultural Philosophy

5

(2)

Cultural Encounters

7

(1)

Interculturality Before Multiculturality

8

(1)

Philosophy and Interculturality

9

(2)

Notes

11

(2)

Toward a Theory of an Analogous Hermeneutics

13

(12)

Preliminary Remarks

13

(1)

The Concept of Interculturality

14

(1)

The Concept of an Analogous Intercultural Hermeneutics

15

(2)

Toward an Ethos of Interculturality

17

(2)

Asia Versus Europe or Universism Versus Universalism

19

(4)

Notes

23

(2)

Hermeneutics of the One Under Different Names

25

(10)

Universality and Particularity

25

(1)

Original Context

26

(1)

The Import of the Vedic Dictum Today

27

(1)

The Idea of ``Religio Perennis''

28

(1)

The Vedic Dictum and the Idea of ``Philosophia Perennis''

29

(2)

Toward a Metonymic Theory of One Truth Under Different Names

31

(1)

Notes

32

(3)

Intercultural Philosophy and Postmodernity

35

(10)

The De Facto Hermeneutic Situation

35

(1)

The Concept of Interculturality

36

(2)

The Concept of Postmodernity

38

(3)

Interculturality and Postmodernity

41

(1)

Modernity, Postmodernity, Interculturality, and Beyond

42

(1)

Notes

43

(2)

An Intercultural Philosophy of Unity Without Uniformity

45

(14)

Preliminary Remarks

45

(1)

The Principle of Unity

46

(3)

A Critical Examination of Hegel's Philosophy of Unity

49

(3)

Toward a Concept of a Nonreductive, Open, and Normative Hermeneutics

52

(7)

Two Metaphors of Time-Arrow and Time-Cycle

59

(10)

The Thesis Defended

59

(1)

An Empirico-Phenomenological Approach

60

(1)

Time-Arrow and Time-Cycle

61

(1)

A Critical Comparison

62

(2)

Three Factors in Time Consciousness

64

(1)

An Intercultural Perspective

65

(1)

Temporality and Historicity

65

(1)

Concluding Remarks

66

(1)

Notes

67

(2)

Metonymic Reflections on Shamkara's Concept of Brahman and Plato's Seventh Epistle

69

(14)

Preliminary Remarks

69

(1)

Shamkara's Concept of the Nondual, the Nirguna Brahman

70

(4)

Plato's Concept of the One and the Good (Hen and Agathon) and His Epistle VII

74

(3)

Shamkara and Plato Compared and Contrasted

77

(1)

Concluding Remarks

78

(2)

Notes

80

(3)

The God of Phenomenology in Comparative Contrast to Those of Philosophy and Theology

83

(16)

Husserl's Religious Leanings

83

(1)

Husserl's Concept of Teleology

84

(1)

Two Paths to God: The Historical and the Philosophical

85

(1)

The Program of Phenomenology in Relation to Teleology and Theology

85

(2)

Phenomenology of Religion

87

(2)

Hume, Husserl, and Hegel

89

(1)

Husserl and Scheler

90

(1)

Husserl's Phenomenology and the Problem of God's Transcendence and Immanence

91

(1)

Husserl, the Phenomenologist, and Husserl, and Believer

92

(1)

Notes

93

(6)

The Concept of the Absolute---An Intercultural Perspective

99

(10)

Preliminary Remarks

99

(1)

Toward the Concept of an Overlapping Absolute

100

(1)

An Interreligious Hermeneutics

101

(1)

Philosophy of Values and the Absolute in Indian Thought

102

(2)

An Intercultural Concept of Tolerance

104

(3)

Notes

107

(2)

Europe in the Mirror of World Cultures---On the Myth of the Europeanization of Humanity: A Non-European Discover of Europe

109

(16)

Historical Remarks

109

(2)

On the Myth ``Europe''

111

(1)

``European'' as an Adjective to the Name Philosophy

112

(1)

On European Reason

112

(1)

European Culture

113

(3)

On the Idea of European Unity

116

(1)

Helping to Give the Adjective Its Right

117

(2)

On the Place of Eurocentric Difference

119

(1)

Europe and the Term History

120

(2)

Notes

122

(3)

Bibliography

125

(20)

Index

145

(10)

About the Author

155

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