East and west : Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell / Seyed Javad Miri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mīrī, Sayyid Javād, 1971 or 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Russell, Bertrand.

Jafari, Allama M. T. (Allama Mohammad Taqi), 1923-.

Jafari, Allama M. T.

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham ; Boulder : University Press of America, 2013.

Summary:

This book is an analysis of an Iranian philosopher's engagement with a British philosopher. The author compares the ideas of these philosophers within the context of European and Iranian intellectual traditions. This is the first book of its kind, as no one has yet looked at Allama Jafari's thought in relation to Sir Bertrand Russell's. East and West will be a useful work for anyone who is interested in comparative philosophical and sociological studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Relocating the Parameters of Comparative Philosophy 11

2 Sir Bertrand Russell in a Snapshot 21

Methodic Doubt 23

Incommensurability Revisited 24

Philosophy: What's in a Name? 26

Religion and Philosophical Problematiques 28

Russell and Religion 31

On Religion and Founders of Religions 37

3 The Global Future of Religion 45

Intellectuals versus Sages 45

Non-discursive Historiography of Intellectual History 46

Religion and Eurocentrism in Russellian Paradigm 49

Religion and the Question of Nihilism 51

Revelation and Intellect 54

The Roots of Religion 57

Religion and Philosophical Inquiry 60

The Permanent Phenomena 62

The Transitory Phenomena 62

Criterion of Distinction 63

The Global Future of Religion 65.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761860827

9780761860822

OCLC:

823831175