Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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... civilization . For it is the only civilization which has had an unlimited curiosity about other civilizations . Mr. Toynbee could not have written his book if thousands of scholars had not stacked the shelves full of books on the twenty ...
... civilization . For it is the only civilization which has had an unlimited curiosity about other civilizations . Mr. Toynbee could not have written his book if thousands of scholars had not stacked the shelves full of books on the twenty ...
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... civilization . Since Ibn Khaldūn's time , his work has con- tinued to have a unique and permanent place in Islamic thought on history and society , in Arabic literature as well as in the newly emerg- ing literature in Turkish and Urdu ...
... civilization . Since Ibn Khaldūn's time , his work has con- tinued to have a unique and permanent place in Islamic thought on history and society , in Arabic literature as well as in the newly emerg- ing literature in Turkish and Urdu ...
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... Civilization and another in Oriental Humanities . At Chicago , there was one integrated course on Indian civilization in which the great books were viewed as vehicles of cultural con- tent . The books there , he said , were first ...
... Civilization and another in Oriental Humanities . At Chicago , there was one integrated course on Indian civilization in which the great books were viewed as vehicles of cultural con- tent . The books there , he said , were first ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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