The Quest for God and the Good : : World Philosophy as a Living Experience /

The Quest for God and the Good : : World Philosophy as a Living Experience / / Diana Lobel.

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Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey 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 Hadot, The Que...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lobel, Diana,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "God Saw That It Was Good": The Creation of the World in the Hebrew Bible
  • 2. A Divine Craftsman Shapes All for the Good: Plato's Realm of the Forms
  • 3. Change and the Good: Chinese Perspectives
  • 4. The Harmony of Reason and Revelation: Augustine and Maimonides on Good and Evil
  • 5. You Are the Absolute: Philosophies of India
  • 6. Compassion, Wisdom, Awakening: The Way of Buddhism
  • 7. The Good Is That to Which All Things Aim: Aristotle on God and the Good
  • 8. The Philosopher as Teacher: Al- Fārābī on Contemplation and Action
  • 9. The Imitation of God: Maimonides on the Active and the Contemplative Life
  • 10. The Dance of Human Expression: Al-Ghazālī and Maimonides
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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