Introducing Eastern Philosophy

by Richard Osborne

Book Overview

Interest in ancient Eastern philosophy has grown in recent years, as dissatisfaction with materialism has turned many away from Western thoughts. This book describes the strands of Eastern thought... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840461500
• ISBN13: 9781840461503
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Totem Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Surprisingly excellent

Like all books in this series, this book has a sort of cartoon format, so the amount of text equals only about 50 pages. As a result, I expected this book to be fairly superficial, like its Western philosophy counterpart, Introducing Philosophy (Introducing...(Totem)). I was therefore surprised to find that Osborne has impressively achieved considerable breadth and depth in this book, which goes to show what a skilled writer can do with few words when he really knows his subject. Osborne provides a nice balance between history, names and terminology, and philosophical concepts, and he integrates it all very well. He also makes many insightful and very helpful connections between Eastern and Western philosophy, implicitly revealing how many Western ideas were probably derived from prior Eastern ones. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Eastern philosophy. The book will serve as an excellent introduction for beginners, though they should probably plan to read it more than once, since the content is too rich to be adequately absorbed in one pass. And readers who have studied Eastern philosophy for a while will also benefit from the book, since it will serve as a nicely coherent review, as well as a means to deepen their understanding.

Very well done

Good overview of the different aspects and schools of Eastern philosophy. Some of it is overlap from other books like "Introducing Buhhha", but this book is good on it's own.

A good book to understand eastern philosophy

After reading this book you will get some insightful knowledge about eastern philosophy. It is very different to western philosophy in some ways. And it is good for you to see this world with less bias. I strongly recommend this book.

Easy to read and fun.

This books gives you alot of eastern philosophy in a short amount of paper useing cartoons and illustrations to make its points. Basically reading this will give you an idea so that you at least know where to start going.