How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

I like this book. Didn't cost me more than expected but has everything that I was looking for and is serving it's purpose.

Oh man, I wish I could give it 4.5 stars because 4 is a little low but it's closer to 4 than 5. This is NOT the book that is advertised. It's not how the world thinks. It's basically how India, China, and Japan think... and a little bit of Western Philosophy. He goes into SO much detail regarding Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Middle Eastern philosophy and you can tell the author really loves those philosophies and the book serves as a great starter guide to many of their ideas. Unfortunately, I bought the book because I wanted philosophies from around the world, not just Asia. The book is approximately 30% China, 25% India, 15% Japan, 20% Western (including the US), 2% African, 2% Russia, 6% Other (including Australia)A grand total of ZERO PERCENT South America or Central America. That's so weird! 3 out of 6 habitable continents are less than 5% of the book. He mentions it somewhat (particularly in regards to Russia) that talking about how many philosophies are difficult to talk about or pin down but... I would have like an attempt. Ubuntu is a *somewhat* major philosophy in African and REALLY connects to a lot of Asian philosophies but he doesn't dedicate any more than 1 or 2 pages to it. South America has MANY philosophers but they are never mentioned. As another review mentioned, I honestly think he mentions maybe one female philosopher but doesn't go into feminist philosophy at all.BUT It's still a very great and interesting read with a lot of love towards the material and towards philosophy in general. It's just not the book you might have been looking for. If you find Indian or Chinese philosophy fascinating then BUY this book. But that's mostly what it is.

anyone who's learned a second language enough to dream in it has experienced a moment (or more) of identity shift—where you feel like a different 'you' when you're thinking or speaking it. reading baggini's thoughtful survey of culturally alternate realities will give you the same feeling; and it's not always a great feeling. that said, if you want to bargain, prevent escalation, or resolve a conflict of interest across these great cultural/philosophical traditions, you'll want to survey the perspectives offered here.

A wider perspective on a widely discussed topic. The criticism of Western Civilization in recent years requires a basis for comparison.

Much of Eastern thinking is experiential so a description is generally irrelevant. No real comparison. But there are Western monastic practices that are relevant but not discussed.

A very good, pleasant-to-read, introduction to philosophy beyond the west. The point of the book is to expand our west-centric understanding of philosophy, so please ignore the unfair comment by Rich which completely misses the point.

This book will show you how other non-western cultures approach philosophy. Great book!!

Affordable resource for school

I have often used this book for teaching philosophy to international students. It's a creative and engaging way into some deep and sometimes challenging ideas. Highly recommended as simply a good read as well.

The book is a global history of Philosophical ideas.This is a novel approach.Being an Engineer,my affinity for Philosophy of Science involvement-trying to answer the why question as I went deeper into many concepts.Besides,I had the chance to read the views of Indian and Western Philosophers.I always told my Philosopher friends,why you use so difficult terminology.This is a book which is free form jargons.

UN LIBRO MOLTO INTERESSANTE.

Lucky to own it!