| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 444 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions |
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SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions
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| Contents |
Introduction / Frank E. Reynolds -- Part I : Self-understanding and issues of practice -- A foreword to comparative philosophy of religion / Franklin I. Gamwell -- What are Buddhists doing when they deny the self? / Steven Collins -- Part II : Types of reasoning and issues of practice -- Al-Farabi on religion and practical reason / Paul E. Walker -- In defense of rather fragile and local achievement : reflections on the work of Gurulugomi / Charles Hallisey -- Part III : Practical reason and the flow of time -- Chronophagous discourse : a study of clerico-legal appropriation of the world in an Islamic tradition / Aziz Al-Azmeh -- Dis-solving a debate : toward a practical theory of myth, with a case study in Vedic mythology / Laurie L. Patton -- The reason of myth and the rationality of history : the logic of the mythic in Bimin-Kuskusmin "modes of thought" / Fitz John Porter Poole -- Part IV : Practical reason and the negotiation of difference -- The rhetoric of revolution : comparative ethics after Kuhn and Gunnemann / Jeffrey Stout -- The fear of Qing : Confucian and Buddhist discourses on desire / Francisca Cho Bantly -- Concluding reflections -- Comparison, pragmatics, and interpretation in the comparative philosophy of religions / Richard J. Parmentier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy -- Comparative studies
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Philosophy, Comparative.
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Practical reason.
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, Comparative
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Practical reason
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Religion -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Comparative studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reynolds, Frank, 1930-
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Tracy, David
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| ISBN |
0585055653 |
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9780585055657 |
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