1st EWPC – 1939

A report on the East-West philosophers’ conference, University of Hawaii, June 26 – August 4, 1939

List of Participants

  • Wing-tsit Chan “The Story of Chinese Philosophy”
  • Wing-tsit Chan “The Spirit of Oriental Philosophy”
  • George P. Conger “An Outline of Indian Philosophy”
  • George P. Conger “Eastern and Western Metaphysics”
  • William Ernest Hocking “Value of the Comparative study of Philosophy
  • Charles A. Moore “Comparative Philosophies of Life”
  • F. S. C. Northrop “The Complementary Emphases of Eastern Intuitive and Western Scientific Philosophy”
  • Shunzo Sakamaki “Shintō: Japaense Ethnocentrism”
  • D. T. Suzuki “An Interpretation of Zen-Experience”
  • Junjiro Takakusu “Buddhism as a Philosophy of ‘Thusness’”