Product Description

Professor de Nicolas presents the reader with actualized posibilities of knowing other cultures as they knew themselves. In his work, philosophy becomes an ongoing synthesis of knowledge and sensation. This new translation of The Bhagavad Gita, with its easy and beautiful reading, is a major philosophical attempt to read a most important text of a culture in it's own context.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1838954 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 500 pages

About the Author
Dr. Antonio T. de Nicolas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York, at Stony Brook. He has written, translated or edited some twenty seven books. And is as well known for his prose as his poetry.

Customer Reviews

A Classic on decision-making!
While all of Western Education is focused on limiting the capacity for decision making to just veridical situations (true, false, good, evil etc.) this classic text shows how decisions in complex situations are to be made( as in fighting a war), and what neural equipment is necessary to carry out those decisions. East and West join hands here to point out a tradition centered on how in every complex situation the best choice among the possible is to be made, and this by habit, as Plato suggested for the educated person. This training, however, is absent in our Religious and Academic Institutions. High time someone noticed. Let the reader decide.