Symposium: Does the Concept of »Truth« Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?

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Henry Rosemont, Jr.
James Maffie
John C. Maraldo
Sonam Thakchoe

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 The symposium »Does the Concept of ›Truth‹ Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?« hones on a methodological question which has deep implications on doing philosophy cross-culturally. Drawing on early Confucian writers, the anchor, Henry Rosemont, Jr., attempts to explain why he is skeptical of pat, affirmative answers to this question. His co-symposiasts James Maffie, John Maraldo, and Sonam Thakchoe follow his trail in working out multi-faceted views on truth from Mexican, Japanese Confucian, and Tibetan Buddhist perspectives respectively. As these positions substantiate, the aforementioned non-Anglo-European traditions seem to draw on an integrated view of thinking, feeling, and living a human life. For their practitioners, truth is less of a correspondence with a given external reality. In fact, it enables human beings to strike the right path in living good, social lives.

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Rosemont, Jr., H., Maffie, J., Maraldo, J. C., & Thakchoe, S. (2016). Symposium: Does the Concept of »Truth« Have Value in the Pursuit of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?. Confluence: Journal of World Philosophies, 1. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/confluence/article/view/518
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