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Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy: The Reception and the Exclusion

Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy: The Reception and the Exclusion

Ambrogio, Selusi

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1350153559
ISBN13: 9781350153554
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 10 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened to the European understanding of China and India between the late 16th century and the first half of the 18th century.

Investigating the description of these two Asian civilizations during a century and a half of histories of philosophy, this book accounts for the change of historiographical paradigms, from Neoplatonic philosophia perennis and Spinozistic atheism to German Eclecticism. Uncovering the reasons for inserting or excluding Chinese and Indian ways of thinking within the field of Philosophy in early modern times, it reveals the origin of the Eurocentric understanding of Philosophy as a Greek-European prerogative.

By highlighting how this narrowing and exclusion of non-Western ways of thought was a result of conviction of superiority and religious prejudice, this book provides a new way of thinking about the place of Asian traditions among World philosophies.

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