{"product_id":"global-history-of-philosophy-vol-4-the-period-of-scholasticism-pt-1-800-1150-a-d","title":"Global History of Philosophy (Vol. 4): The Period of Scholasticism (Pt. 1) (800-1150 A.D.)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth and fifth volumes of the Global History of Philosophy are\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003edesignated The Period of Scholasticism (part one: 800-1150, part two:\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e1150-1350) in order to stress that the scholastic method with its emphasis\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eon thesis, antithesis, and attempts at synthesis became universal\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ethroughout Eurasia. Scholasticism should not be taken in the pejorative\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003esense as the juggling of arguments by straw men, but in the sense of a\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003echallenge even in our own era to work for consistent and comprehensive\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003esystematic synthesis. All the \"older traditions\" need to be reinterpreted\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ein terms of \"modern conditions\"--which after all, is what the Eurasian\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003escholastics of these centuries were doing for their own time.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eThe major developments of this period are \"Monism in Many Moods\" during the\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eninth century, through \"Exfoliation and Elaboration\" of those seminal\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003esystems in the tenth and eleventh centuries until the time of the \"Great\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eSummas\" in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was during this time\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ethat philosophy and theology developed a very highly sophisticated\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003etechnique of balancing arguments and refutations and counter-arguments and\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ecounter-refutations. Most of these architectonic structurings were in the\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eform of commentaries on basic handbook texts handed down as authoritative\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003escripture.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eIn every culture of Eurasia systematic philosophy as well as intuitive\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ewisdom had reached a high degree of sophistication from which it might be\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003esaid that it has never quite completely recovered. In terms of method,\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eseldom since has there been such thoroughness in treatment of every single\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003etopic, with arguments and counter-arguments architechtonically juxtaposed\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eand counter-balanced into such a grand harmony. As is true of the whole\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eseries, these volumes are a new way of exploring the accumulative wisdom of\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003emankind, and in the process explode many of the ethnocentric stereotypes\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ewhich still hinder intercultural communications and world peace through\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eintercultural understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReview(s)\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author(s)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJOHN C.PLOTT received his B.A. degree with Phi Beta Kappa honors at the\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eUniversity of Oklahoma and Ph.D. degree from Banaras Hindu University. He\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eis now teaching philosophy at Marshall University, U.S.A. He constantly\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003econcerned for World Peace through Global Understanding and Social Justice\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ethrough Gandhian Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MLBD PUBLICATION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51272707277098,"sku":"CRAZY-9789357607179","price":45.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0693\/1218\/4618\/files\/517_a3396cf0-549c-4607-9988-c1fe577a5f7c.jpg?v=1773919477","url":"https:\/\/crazyshelf.com\/products\/global-history-of-philosophy-vol-4-the-period-of-scholasticism-pt-1-800-1150-a-d","provider":"Crazyshelf.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}