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Religion and practical reason : new essays in the comparative philosophy of religions / edited by Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religionsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 444 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585055653
  • 9780585055657
Other title:
  • Practical reason
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and practical reason.DDC classification:
  • 210 20
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .R3475 1994eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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