Meditations of Global First Philosophy

Ashok K. Gangadean is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Haverford College and the Founder and Director of the Global Dialogue Institute. He is the author of Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason and Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar.

• Prescript: The Missing Global Evolutionary Drama Preface: The Emergence of Global Logos: The Awakening Part 1. The Emergence of Global First PhilosophyPrologue: Quest for the Missing Grammar of Global Logos Part 2. Explorations in Global First PhilosophyIntroduction: Entering the Space of Global First Philosophy Introduction 1. The Quest for the Universal Global Science 2. Logos as the Infinite Primal Word: The Global Essence of Language 3. Logos and the Global Mind: The Awakening Story 4. The Emergence of Logos in Classical Greek Thought 5. Logos and the Dialogical Turn: Dialogical Awakening in the Global Evolution of Cultures 6. The Continuing Quest for Primal Knowledge 7. Logos as the Foundation of Global Ethics: Dialogical Awakening as the Key to Global Ethics 8. Meditative Reason and the Holistic Turn to Global Philosophy 9. Meditative Reason and the Missing Logic of Logos 10. Logos of Tao: The Primal Logic of Translatability 11. Nagarjuna and the End of Global Suffering Index

"The author has the courage and commitment to take on an issue of tremendous philosophical importance, despite the fact that postmodernism has not only made the topic unfashionable, but branded it morally repugnant as well." — Douglas W. Shrader, coauthor of Pathways to Philosophy: A Multidisciplinary Approach