Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page 11
... importance of introducing Oriental studies into the college curriculum , because they open up for students new and important realms of scholarship which must , for the welfare of our society , be intensively and professionally ...
... importance of introducing Oriental studies into the college curriculum , because they open up for students new and important realms of scholarship which must , for the welfare of our society , be intensively and professionally ...
Page 37
... importance , he said , is in themselves ; they have their own contemporaneous qual- ities . Mr. Ulanov , nevertheless , considered it important to a full com- prehension of modern writers that their references to Oriental works and ...
... importance , he said , is in themselves ; they have their own contemporaneous qual- ities . Mr. Ulanov , nevertheless , considered it important to a full com- prehension of modern writers that their references to Oriental works and ...
Page 41
... important . The important thing is that they all raise the same important question . It is good to remind ourselves that that question is an eternal ques- tion to which every man within the sanctity and solitude of his own soul , with ...
... important . The important thing is that they all raise the same important question . It is good to remind ourselves that that question is an eternal ques- tion to which every man within the sanctity and solitude of his own soul , with ...
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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