The
Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
By Hahn, Lewis Edwin, Seyyed
Hossein Nasr
2001/06 - Open Court Publishing Company
0812694139 - Hardcover
Our Price $59.95
This book looks at one of today's greatest thinkers
and his influential writings on religion, science, history, and Persian
mysticism. The text includes 33 critical essays by contemporary scholars
and Nasr's responses to each of them.
Publisher
This book looks at one of today's greatest thinkers and his influential
writings on religion, science, history, and Persian mysticism. The text
includes 33 critical essays by contemporary scholars and Nasr's
responses to each of them.
Contents
Frontispiece
General Introduction to the Library
of Living Philosophers
Founder's General Introduction to the
Library of Living Philosophers
Acknowledgements
Preface
Pt. 1
Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed
Hossein Nasr
1
Pt. 2
Descriptive and Critical Essays on
the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, with replies
87
1
"From the Niche of
Prophecy": Nasr's Position On Islamic Philosophy Within The
Islamic Tradition In Excerpts And Commentary
89
Reply to Muhammad Suheyl Umar
132
2
Nasr's Defense of the Perennial
Philosophy
139
Reply to Huston Smith
159
3
Perennial Philosophy in a Public
Context
169
Reply to Robert Cummings Neville
190
4
The Philosophia Perennis and the
Religions of the World
203
Reply to Sallie B. King
221
5
Revisioning Classical Hinduism
Through Philosophia Perennis
233
Reply to Arvind Sharma
248
6
Reflections on Tradition and
Modernity: A Response to Seyyed Hossein Nasr from a Neo-Confucian
Perspective
253
Reply to Shu-hsien Liu
270
7
Nasr and the Quest for the Sacred
277
Reply to Ernest Wolf-Gazo
304
8
Buddhist Creative Metaphysics and
Islamic Thought
313
Reply to Kenneth K. Inada
327
9
Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Time and
Eternity
335
Reply to G. F. McLean and R. K. Khuri
358
10
Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Philosophy of
Art
371
Reply to Eliot Deutsch
381
11
Knowledge of the Sacred: The Mystical
Poetry of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
393
Reply to Luce Lopez-Baralt
420
12
A Nasr Sentence: Some Comments
429
Reply to A. K. Saran
440
13
The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr
on Science
445
Reply to Ibrahim Kalin
463
14
Sophia Perennis and Modern Science
469
Reply to Wolfgang Smith
486
15
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Religion,
Nature, and Science
493
Reply to Giovanni Monastra
512
16
The Quest for the Universal Global
Science
519
Reply to Ashok K. Gangadean
542
17
Philosophia Perennis and Scientia
Sacra in a Postmodern World
551
Reply to Mehdi Aminrazavi
563
18
Nasr's Absolute Everything and
Nothing
571
Reply to Archie J. Bahm
581
19
The Concept of Spiritual Knowledge in
the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
589
Reply to Judy D. Saltzman
612
20
The Essential Relation Between
Revelation and Philosophy in Islam and Its Importance in
Understanding the Nature and History of Islamic Philosophy
619
Reply to Zailan Moris
632
21
Islamic Philosophical Theology
639
Reply to David B. Burrell
658
22
Sufism in the Thought of S. H. Nasr
669
Reply to Leonard Lewisohn
679
23
The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology
685
Reply to William C. Chittick
710
24
Know the World to Know Yourself
717
Reply to Pierre Lory
728
25
The Transcendent Spirit, Private
Language Fallacy, and Islamization of Ibn Sina: Reflections on the
Works of S. H. Nasr
735
Reply to Parviz Morewedge
753
26
Nur al-Fu'ad, a Nineteenth-Century
Persian Text in Illuminationist Philosophy by Shihab al-Din
Kumijani
763
Reply to Hossein Ziai
775
27
Thinker of the Sacred
781
Reply to Enes Karic
792
28
Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Apologist or
Reformer of Islam?
799
Reply to Marietta Stepaniants
809
29
Perennial Philosophy Now: The Case of
Wilayat-iFaqih
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Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr