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Religion and practical reason : new essays in the comparative philosophy of religions

Title
Religion and practical reason : new essays in the comparative philosophy of religions / edited by Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy.
Publication
  • Albany : State University of New York Press, [1994]
  • ©1994

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Additional Authors
  • Reynolds, Frank, 1930-
  • Tracy, David.
Description
ix, 444 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions
Uniform Title
SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions
Alternative Title
Practical reason.
Subject
  • Religion > Philosophy > Comparative studies
  • Philosophy, Comparative
  • Practical reason
  • 11.02 philosophy of religion
  • Philosophy, Comparative
  • Practical reason
  • Religion > Philosophy
  • Religion
  • Religionsphilosophie
  • Vergleichende Philosophie
  • Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
  • Kongress
  • Godsdienstfilosofie
  • Praktische logica
Genre/Form
Comparative studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0791422178
  • 9780791422175
  • 0791422186
  • 9780791422182
LCCN
94007298
OCLC
  • ocm30030870
  • 30030870
  • SCSB-2037440
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library