The quest for God and the good : world philosophy as a living experience /

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Diana Lobel engages readers in a journey of discovery across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lobel, Diana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Philosophy and religion.
God > Comparative studies.
Good and evil > Religious aspects > Comparative studies.
Religious life > Comparative studies.
Dieu > Études comparatives.
Vie religieuse > Études comparatives.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Theology.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
God
Good and evil > Religious aspects
Philosophy and religion
Religious life
Comparative studies
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Table of Contents:
  • "God saw that it was good": the creation of the world in the Hebrew Bible
  • A divine craftsman shapes all for the good: Plato's realm of the forms
  • Change and the good: Chinese perspectives
  • The harmony of reason and revelation: Augustine and Maimonides on good and evil
  • You are the absolute: philosophies of India
  • Compassion, wisdom, awakening: the way of Buddhism
  • The good is that to which all things aim: Aristotle on God and the good
  • The philosopher as teacher: Al-Farabi on contemplation and action
  • The imitation of God: Maimonides on the active and the contemplative life
  • The dance of human expression: al-Ghazali and Maimonides.

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