Between local and global: The place of comparative philosophy through Heidegger and Daoism

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

6-2019

Abstract

It is often argued that comparative philosophy is afflicted by an inherent contradiction. For in order to be truly comparative, it needs to assume some over arching position with regard to the thinkers or thoughts under comparison, to somehow stand above or beyond what is being compared. In other words, it must transcend the things under comparison. If the comparative philosopher does not undertake at least the transcendence of her own culture, then she is in danger of imposing her own standards on foreign ways of thought.

Keywords

Comparative philosophy, Heidegger, Daoism

Discipline

Philosophy

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Philosophies of place: An intercultural conversation

Editor

Roger Ames and Peter Herschock

First Page

34

Last Page

50

ISBN

9780824876586

Identifier

10.2307/j.ctv7r43n5.5

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

City or Country

Honolulu

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv7r43n5.5

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