The quest for God and the good: world philosophy as a living experience
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New York
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Columbia University Press
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]257[-277( and index
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Diana Lobel
CONTENTS NOTE
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"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
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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، Philosophy and religion
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Comparative studies ، God
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Comparative studies ، Good and evil -- Religious aspects