History of World Philosophies

Introduction

I believe that the best way to learn a subject is to teach. Practically, it means that I can lecture on the subject or I can write a book on the subject. I have opted to do the latter and the subject of my writing in Philosophy. My aim is to write a History of World Philosophies. Earlier, I had thought about the ways to cover the subject. I sense that merely summarizing the views of the Philosophers was inadequate. So I have decided to make some amendments to my approach. A new approach will consider the socio-political context which will help the reader to understand the formulation of ideas. Secondly, I will begin the book by discussing the basic divisions of Philosophy (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic and so on) for I have felt that the reader finds it hard to comprehend the rest of the book it he/she is not familiar/introduced to the basic divisions in Philosophy.

Table of Contents

1. What is Philosophy?
2. Indian philosophy
3. Chinese philosophy
4. Presocratics
5. Buddhist philosophy
6. Ancient philosophy
7. Jewish philosophy
8. Hellenistic philosophy
9. Patristics
10. Islamic philosophy
11. Scholatics
12. Japanese philosophy
13. Reneissanse philosophy
14. philosophy of eblightment
15. Traditionalism
16. German idealism
17. Lebenphilosophie
18. Positivism
19. Marxism
20. Phenomenology
21. Psychoanalysis
22. Neopositivism
23. Neomarxism
24. Exustencialism
25. Structuralism
26. Postmarxism
27. Postphenomenology
28. Postcontinental philosophy
29. Postanalytical philosophy
30. Posthumanism
31. Postcolonialism