Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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... particular element in the cultures of the world is implicitly to condemn all cultures and even all human development . Every human accomplishment reflects the particular cultural form of the society in which it was produced . When we ...
... particular element in the cultures of the world is implicitly to condemn all cultures and even all human development . Every human accomplishment reflects the particular cultural form of the society in which it was produced . When we ...
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... particular formation of mind . A person cannot have the analytical mentality of the Western scientist and the con- templative mentality of an Indian rishi . No Western painter could have done the work of Ma Yuan or that of Hokusai . To ...
... particular formation of mind . A person cannot have the analytical mentality of the Western scientist and the con- templative mentality of an Indian rishi . No Western painter could have done the work of Ma Yuan or that of Hokusai . To ...
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... particular . But these difficulties are for the most part not faced , but only sidetracked , by modern philological and historical criticism . These latter are the scientific offspring of a mod- ern philosophic attitude which has ...
... particular . But these difficulties are for the most part not faced , but only sidetracked , by modern philological and historical criticism . These latter are the scientific offspring of a mod- ern philosophic attitude which has ...
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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