Pizhuhish nāmah-i intiqādī-i mutūn va barnāmah hā-yi ̒ulūm-i insāni (Critical Studies in Texts & Programs of Human Sciences)

A Critique on the Book Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy

Document Type : Research

Author

Hasan Ahmadizade

Assistance Professor of Comparative Philosophy, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2021.32853.1972
Abstract
Today many of orientalists think that philosophy in the eastern cultures has authenticity and the eastern concepts in philosophy and humanities are rooted in this culture. This attitude led them to investigate critically the eastern concepts in philosophy. They also tried to compare them to western philosophical concepts. Oliver Leaman is of the most famous western thinkers that has published different books on eastern philosophy, especially Islamic philosophy. In this article, we will try to investigate critically on one of his books titled Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy. Leaman in this book gathered different concepts in the eastern philosophies like Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucius, and Islamic philosophy, and explains these concepts according to the eastern texts. One of the most important privileges of this book is that Leaman tries to explain eastern philosophical concepts in their cultural context, but he did not explain some key concepts in the eastern philosophies nor did he explain them shortly.

Keywords

Eastern Philosophy
Methodology
Islamic Philosophy
Hinduism
Buddhism

Subjects

نصر، سیدحسین و الیور لیمن (1383)،  تاریخ فلسفۀ اسلامی، ترجمۀ جمعی از استادان فلسفه، ج 1، تهران: حکمت.
نصر، سیدحسین و الیور لیمن (1386)،  تاریخ فلسفۀ اسلامی، ترجمۀ جمعی از استادان فلسفه، ج 2 و3، تهران: حکمت.
نصر، سیدحسین و الیور لیمن (1388)،  تاریخ فلسفۀ اسلامی، ترجمۀ جمعی از استادان فلسفه، ج 4 و 5، تهران: حکمت.
 
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  • Receive Date 24 September 2021
  • Revise Date 28 November 2021
  • Accept Date 29 December 2021

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