PHILOSOPHY -- Religious

The oneness hypothesis: beyond the boundary of self

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The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world--the "oneness hypothesis"--Can be found in many of the world's philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamenta…

Cosmology for the curious

by Perlov, Delia, Vilenkin, A., (Alexander)

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This book is an introductory text for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion - the big bang. For nearly a century cosmologists have studied the aftermath of this explosion: how the universe expanded and cooled do…

Talking God: philosophers on belief

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"Through interivews with twelve distinguished philosophers -- including atheists, agnostics, and believers -- Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Putting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions abo…

Talking God: philosophers on belief

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"Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers -- including atheists, agnostics, and believers -- Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions abo…

Why we need religion

by Asma, Stephen T.

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"Stephen T. Asma argues that religion, like art, has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Science can cause curiosity and wonder, but much emotional suffering and vulnerability is beyond the reach of scientific help. Unlike secular authors who prai…

Gandhi: anti-biography of a great soul

by Saint-Cheron, Michaël de

fromFrench writings on India and South Asia

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"This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view-- and Jewish too perhaps-- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another dimension as it is represented through another culture. There are eloquent account…

Religious Platonism: the influence of religion on Plato and the influe…

by Feibleman, James K., (James Kern)

fromRoutledge library editions

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First Published in 1959. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A prophetic peace: Judaism, religion, and politics

by Isaacs, Alick

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Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts…

Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume 7, Book 3

by Coleman, Martin A., Gouinlock, James, Wokeck, Marianne S., Santayana, George

fromThe life of reason / George Santayana

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Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and culti…

Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's encounter with early Buddhism in Central…

by Beckwith, Christopher I.

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Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history.

Greek Buddha: Pyrrho's encounter with early Buddhism in Central…

by Beckwith, Christopher I.

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Pyrrho of Elis accompanied Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Graeco-Macedonian invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC, and while there met with teachers of Early Buddhism. Greek Buddha shows how Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, …

Martin Buber's theopolitics

by Brody, Samuel Hayim

fromNew Jewish philosophy and thought

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How did one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century grapple with the founding of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict'one of the most significant political conflicts of his time' Samuel Hayim Brody traces the development of Martin Buber's thinking and its impl…

The Routledge companion to seventeenth century philosophy

fromRoutledge philosophy companions

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The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey of one of the most important eras in the history of Western philosophy - one which witnessed philosophical, scientific, religious and social change on a massive scale. A team of twenty internation…

Religion: beyond a concept

fromFuture of the religious past

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What do we talk about when we talk about ?religion?? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictable?perhaps the very emergence of the new? In what ways are the legacies of religion?its powers, words, things…