This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of ancient India and China. It acquaints readers with concepts like holistic or ceremonial approach to reality, openness to transcendence, pluralism of opinions, behaviour leading by a sense of harmony.

Adrián Slavkovský is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Trnava University, Slovakia.

Contents: Eastern Philosophy and its Meaning for Us – Origins and Main Schools of Indian Philosophy – Vedas – Upanishads – Darshanas – Origins of Chinese Philosophy – Confucius and Confucianists – Taoism – Mohism – School of Logicians and Legists – Cosmological Thinking.