Chinese and Indian ways of thinking in early modern European philosophy : the reception and the exclusion

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Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication Contents Preliminary Note on Some Terms and Quotes List of Abbreviations General Introduction 1 India and China between ‘Prisca Theologia’ and Barbarity 1.0 Introduction 1.1 The first rift in the perennial philosophy model: Otto van Heurn and India 1.2 Jesuits and philosophia perennis: Xavier, Postel and Ricci 1.3 The second rift in the perennial historical model: Georg Horn and China 1.4 Chronology issues: La Peyrère, Isaac Vossius and Georg Horn 1.5 China and India: problems of coherence among the theories about the diffusion of philosophy 1.6 Thomas Burnet: modern Asia as ‘wretched Barbarity’ Conclusions of the first chapter 2 ‘Atheistic Asia’: Positive and Negative Standpoints 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Missionary construction of the Asiatic negative myth in the seventeenth century: Buddhist atheism 2.2 The reception of the negative myth of Asia in seventeenth-century Europe: François Bernier 2.3 Pierre Bayle and the ‘Oriental Spinozism’ 2.4 The effects of Bayle’s ‘Oriental Spinozism’: a few instances of Histories of Philosophy in French 2.5 Johann Franz Buddeus as critical follower of the ‘Oriental Spinozism’ 2.6 The last effective perennialist philosopher: Leibniz 2.7 Boureau-Deslandes: an anti-Bayle thinker with new insights Conclusions of the second chapter 3 The Complete Exclusion of Asians from Philosophy 3.0 Introduction 3.1 The Grecization of philosophy 3.2 German Eclecticism and Christian Wolff 3.3 Christoph August Heumann: the theorist of exclusion 3.4 Friedrich Gentzken: Asians lack morality and theoretics 3.5 Jakob Brucker: the unphilosophical nature of ancient Asians’ thought 3.6 Jakob Brucker: the contemporary ‘Exotic’ Asians out of philosophy 3.7 Jakob Brucker’s ‘system of philosophy’ and Chinese thinking Conclusion: The Tight Shoes of Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index