Research Catalog

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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Details

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.

Subjects

• Comparative studies
• Praktische logica
• Godsdienstfilosofie
• Kongress
• Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Vergleichende Philosophie
• Religionsphilosophie
• Practical reason
• Philosophy, Comparative
• 11.02 philosophy of religion
• Religion > Philosophy > Comparative studies

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