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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
U.S.A.: Martinus Nijhoff, Date: 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good clean tight copy with light wear (one rubbed spot on cover). Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. 1986. Martinus Nijhoff ISBN 9024730007 9789024730001 [US]
ISBN10: 9024730007, ISBN13: 9789024730001, [publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, U.S.A.] Hardcover Very good clean tight copy with light wear (one rubbed spot on cover). Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged. [Springfield, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
Martinus Nijhoff. Very Good+. Date: 1986. Hardcover. 9024730007 . Dark blue and light blue cloth, black and blue lettering on covers and spine; sewn binding. 309 pages including index. Minimal marks, Bangor Theological Seminary (never checked out) ; otherwise unmarked, clean, bright, tight, attractive, unread copy in near fine condition ; Studies in Philosophy and Religion; 9.30 X 6.20 X 1 inches . 1986. Martinus Nijhoff ISBN 9024730007 9789024730001 [US]
ISBN10: 9024730007, ISBN13: 9789024730001, [publisher: Martinus Nijhoff] Hardcover Dark blue and light blue cloth, black and blue lettering on covers and spine; sewn binding. 309 pages including index. Minimal marks, Bangor Theological Seminary (never checked out) ; otherwise unmarked, clean, bright, tight, attractive, unread copy in near fine condition ; Studies in Philosophy and Religion; 9.30 X 6.20 X 1 inches [Richmond, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1986]
ISBN10: 9024730007, ISBN13: 9789024730001, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The cross-disciplinary studies in this volume are of special interest because they link human purpose to the present debate between religion and the process of secularization. If that debate is to be a creative one, the notion of the 'human orderer' must be related significantly both to the sacred and secular realms. In fact, if man were not a purposive being, he would have neither religious nor secular problems. Questions about origins and destiny, divine purposiveness and the order of human development, would not arise as topics of human concern. It would appear, then, that few would deny the fact of man's purposiveness in existence, that the pursuit of these purposes constitutes the dramas of history and culture. Yet the case is otherwise. For, concerning 'purposes' itself, widely divergent, even antithetical, views have been held. The common man has mistrusted its guidance for purpose, much too often, 'changes its mind'. Its fluctuations and whimsical nature are too much even for common sense. The sciences have identified purpose with the personal life and viewed it as a function of the subject self. Consequently they had no need for it in scientific method and objective knowledge. The religions of the world have used purpose in its holistic sense, for purposes of establishing grandious syste ...
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Religion and Human Purpose : A Cross Disciplinary Approach. ISBN 9024730007 9789024730001 [GB]
ISBN10: 9024730007, ISBN13: 9789024730001, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The cross-disciplinary studies in this volume are of special interest because they link human purpose to the present debate between religion and the process of secularization. If that debate is to be a creative one, the notion of the 'human orderer' must be related significantly both to the sacred and secular realms. In fact, if man were not a purposive being, he would have neither religious nor secular problems. Questions about origins and destiny, divine purposiveness and the order of human development, would not arise as topics of human concern. It would appear, then, that few would deny the fact of man's purposiveness in existence, that the pursuit of these purposes constitutes the dramas of history and culture. Yet the case is otherwise. For, concerning 'purposes' itself, widely divergent, even antithetical, views have been held. The common man has mistrusted its guidance for purpose, much too often, 'changes its mind'. Its fluctuations and whimsical nature are too much even for common sense. The sciences have identified purpose with the personal life and viewed it as a function of the subject self. Consequently they had no need for it in scientific method and objective knowledge. The religions of the world have used purpose in its holistic sense, for purposes of establishing grandious syste ...
ISBN10: 9024730007, ISBN13: 9789024730001, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover Editor(s): Horosz, William; Clements, Tad. Series: Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 631. . 1986. Hardback. . . . . [Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 1986]
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