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AB -  inward movement; we may compare this with the words of the Buddha recorded in the Anguttara Nikya: Volition is action, thus I say, O monks; for as soon as volition arises, one does the action" (Cross, p. 168). Reference Piantelli, M. 1986. "La My nelle Upanisad di Schopenhauer." Annuario Filosofico 2 (1986): 163­207. Kritik der symbolischen Formen I: Symbolische Form und Funktion (Critique of symbolic forms I: Symbolic forms and function). By Raji C. Steineck. Philosophie Interkulturell, Band 3. Stuttgart­Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2014. Pp. 148. Paper 38. isbn 978-3-7728-2673-3. Reviewed by Thora Ilin Bayer Xavier University of Louisiana tibayer@xula.edu For any reader with knowledge of the works of Ernst Cassirer, the question that will come to mind on approaching Raji C. Steineck's Kritik der symbolischen Formen I: Symbolische Form und Funktion is: Why Japan? Cassirer's great range of writings on the history of thought, culture, and symbol involves no sustained attention to Japanese culture. Cassirer also never addresses problems of East-West philosophy, nor did he, unlike some other German thinkers in the twentieth century, engage in correspondence with Japanese thinkers. In the first volume of Philosophie der symbolischen Formen, Cassirer does make reference in several places to the 
TI - Kritik der symbolischen Formen I: Symbolische Form und Funktion by Raji C. Steineck (review)
JF - Philosophy East and West
DA - 2016-10-13
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EP - 1359
VL - 66
IS - 4
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