Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page 67
... ideas and information in the Qur'ān are taken from outside sources . As Profes- sor Jeffery has pointed out , Muhammad was attracted by the idea of scripture , i.e. , of having a book in which God himself reveals to men something of his ...
... ideas and information in the Qur'ān are taken from outside sources . As Profes- sor Jeffery has pointed out , Muhammad was attracted by the idea of scripture , i.e. , of having a book in which God himself reveals to men something of his ...
Page 146
... ideas or that such an expression has failed to survive the centuries , but rather that he would have felt such an exposition to be of little or no value . The precise formulation of general ideas , which usually receives the closest ...
... ideas or that such an expression has failed to survive the centuries , but rather that he would have felt such an exposition to be of little or no value . The precise formulation of general ideas , which usually receives the closest ...
Page 209
... ideas , especially in terms of art . Remains of Greco - Roman humanistic ideas entered both Christian and Buddhist sculpture . In both traditions , however , real- istic sculpture , which had been the humanist legacy , was rejected in ...
... ideas , especially in terms of art . Remains of Greco - Roman humanistic ideas entered both Christian and Buddhist sculpture . In both traditions , however , real- istic sculpture , which had been the humanist legacy , was rejected in ...
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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