The Sociology of Philosophies

no Rikyu became tea master to Hideyoshi, and the social arbiter of good taste in the 1580s. The tea ceremony became a lavish dis ...

the puritanism of Ansai’s sage religion: “Those who eliminate all human desires are not human beings; they are no different from ...

restoration; at the same time, Chikafusa relied on Buddhist metaphysics to give a larger significance to the conception of Japan ...

gated older culture, and this period of mass expansion of schooling was not the time when the main intellectual innovations took ...

the Kyoto school did not reign in Japanese philosophy without opposition. For a period in the 1920s there were some advocates of ...

Greek philosophy then beginning to circulate (Fakhry, 1983: 8–9; Watt, 1973: 154–155, 205, 249); but they turned the concepts of ...

spilled over into border clashes with surrounding states; then it fell heir to a geopolitical vacuum owing to the mutually destr ...

The Neoplatonists, who developed as a pagan rival to Christianity, eventually produced a full-fledged religious conception of Go ...

In the key to Figures 8.2 and 8.3, 196 in Afghanistan, 207 in Transoxiana, 217 in Anatolia, 229 in Baghdad, 232 in North Africa ...

had been formulated in this generation at Basra. Al-Majriti’s pupils were astrono- mers and astrologers at Córdoba; one of them ...

nowhere says that creation did not take place from preexisting matter or in pre- existing time; creation consisted only of givin ...

Popes Innocent III (r. 1198–1216), Gregory IX (1227–1241), and Innocent IV (1243–1254) were especially powerful vis-à-vis secul ...

absence of a bureaucratic church. In Christendom medicine became a learned subject claiming the licensing privileges of the univ ...

Dante, from the anti-papal faction in Florence, was sympathetic to the Averroist worldview. It contained stranger combinations ...

10. Cross-Breeding Networks and Rapid-Discovery Science When not otherwise cited, biographical and network information througho ...

38; Mikami, 1913: 45–58; Qian, 1985: 62–63; Ho, 1985: 125–127; Chen, 1987: 77–85; Li and Du, 1987). Algebra reached sophisticate ...

1200s: 3–4–7 1300s: 5–6–0 1400s: 2–3–10 1500s: 17–18–26 1600s: 37–44–23 1700s: 19–39–34 Moreover, before 1500, most of the names ...

965–1035, this elementary algebra had been developed to the high points of world mathematics at the time, al-Buzjani’s Diophanti ...

scientist within two links for 16 of 25 major philosophers (64 percent) and for 15 of 61 secondaries (25 percent). If we start f ...

economy, remained separate from the samurai schools, and had no effect on innovation in abstract mathematics (Dore, 1965). We s ...