Editor: Ames, Roger T.
Hardback; Book; Index
288 pages
Published: October 1999
Open Court Publishing Company
ISBN: 0812694058

Comparative philosophers discuss and comment on their contemporary Deutsch's ideas in ten original essays. He responds. They engage such topics as mysticism and aesthetics, truth, ontological theory, the traditional text in Indian philosophy, the spiritual value of suffering, the philosophy of religion, freedom and inequality, and self-cultivation as education embodying humanity.Celebrating Eliot Deutsch's project promoting understanding of Asian philosophical ideas among Westerners, these essays discuss and comment on his ideas. Topics covered in the essays include mysticism, aesthetics and truth. Also included are Deutch's own replies to the essays.