This book is a major weapon in Dilworth's structuralist attack on 'post-modern deconstructionists'. (..) Only limited attention for Chinese philosophy and allusions to Japanese, Indian and Islamic philosophies are extremely fleeting. [ lack of Latin-American and African philosophy ] Thoughts about Chinese philosophy are based on limited translations where other translations might produce very different categorizations and interpretations. (..) e.g. the diaphanic perspective of Confucius, the I Ching, the Taoists, the neo-Confucians and the Pure Land and Zen Buddhists might be hotly contested by other translators. (..) aesthetic and ethical issues have traditionally been on the fringes of Western philosophy and remain so in Dilworth's 'world perspective'. |