An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy

An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy

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  • Author: Alexus McLeod
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009218751
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

The philosophy of Mesoamerica – the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America – is rich and varied but relatively little-known. In this ground-breaking book, Alexus McLeod introduces the philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focussing in particular on their treatment of language, truth, time, creation, personhood, knowledge, and morality. His wide-ranging discussion includes important texts of world literature such as the K'iche Maya Popol Vuh and the Aztec Florentine Codex, as well as precolonial glyphic texts and imagery. This comprehensive and accessible book will give students, specialists and other interested readers an understanding of Mesoamerican philosophy and a sense of the current scholarship in the field.


Aztec Philosophy

Aztec Philosophy

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  • Author: James Maffie
  • Publisher: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN: 1607322234
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 512

In Aztec Philosophy, James Maffie shows the Aztecs advanced a highly sophisticated and internally coherent systematic philosophy worthy of consideration alongside other philosophies from around the world. Bringing together the fields of comparative world philosophy and Mesoamerican studies, Maffie excavates the distinctly philosophical aspects of Aztec thought. Aztec Philosophy focuses on the ways Aztec metaphysics—the Aztecs’ understanding of the nature, structure and constitution of reality—underpinned Aztec thinking about wisdom, ethics, politics,\ and aesthetics, and served as a backdrop for Aztec religious practices as well as everyday activities such as weaving, farming, and warfare. Aztec metaphysicians conceived reality and cosmos as a grand, ongoing process of weaving—theirs was a world in motion. Drawing upon linguistic, ethnohistorical, archaeological, historical, and contemporary ethnographic evidence, Maffie argues that Aztec metaphysics maintained a processive, transformational, and non-hierarchical view of reality, time, and existence along with a pantheistic theology. Aztec Philosophy will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists, philosophers, religionists, folklorists, and Latin Americanists as well as students of indigenous philosophy, religion, and art of the Americas.


Philosophy of the Ancient Maya

Philosophy of the Ancient Maya

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  • Author: Alexus McLeod
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • ISBN: 1498531393
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 239

This book investigates some of the central topics of metaphysics in the philosophical thought of the Maya people of Mesoamerica, particularly from the Preclassic through Postclassic periods. This book covers the topics of time, change, identity, and truth, through comparative investigation integrating Maya texts and practices—such as Classic Period stelae, Postclassic Codices, and Colonial-era texts such as the Popol Vuh and the books of Chilam Balam—and early Chinese philosophy.


The Aztecs

The Aztecs

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  • Author: David Carrasco
  • Publisher: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 0195379381
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 153

Illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and through warfare.


The Ritual Practice of Time

The Ritual Practice of Time

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  • Author: Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
  • ISBN: 9789004252356
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 420

Drawing upon the category 'ritual practices of time' this book offers a comparative analytical model and theoretical insights about calendars in Mesoamerica and in general. This comprehensive study systematically explicates how ritual practises are represented and conceptualized in intellectual systems and societies.


From Africa to Zen

From Africa to Zen

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  • Author: Robert C. Solomon
  • Publisher: Rl Innactive Titles
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Ethnophilosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 328

In this collection, 12 scholars of non-Western philosophy aim to provide an introduction to some of the great and often neglected philosophical traditions of the world. While some of these cultures have long, written philosophical traditions, in others philosophy is to be found in poetry, mythology and folk tales, or is inseparable from wisdom of life in general. Subjects include: Chinese thought, Japanese thought, American Indian attitudes, Latin American traditions, Arabic philosophy, Persian philosophy, African philosophy, Indian philosophies, esoteric philosophy.


An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy

An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy

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  • Author: John Mansley Robinson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Philosophy, Ancient
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 339


Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies

Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies

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  • Author: Bretton A. Varga
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 080776826X
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

"This collection of essays explores posthuman approaches to social studies education, challenging the field to think differently about the precarious status of the world. Authors examine how educators and scholars can foster more ethical ways of teaching, learning, and researching by cultivating a greater sense of attunement to the more-than-human"--


The Philosophy of Man

The Philosophy of Man

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  • Author: Howard P. Kainz
  • Publisher: University : University of Alabama Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Philosophical anthropology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

The questions considered in this book are common to philosophers, psychologists and anthropologists alike: What is man, and how does he differ from the animals? Is it true that man is less ruled by instinct than animals? How is man affected by heredity and environment? In particular, how are masculine and feminine "traits" affected by heredity and/or environment? Are there any relatively clear-cut stages in the evolution of the individual and of the human race? Does man have a mind or soul distinct from the body, and does it entail the possibility of survival after physical death? Questions such as these posed throughout civilized time are examined anew in this book. Originally published by the University of Alabama Press in 1981.


Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology

Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology

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  • Author: F. W. J. Schelling
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 079147996X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 266

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.