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Title: Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western Thought by William L. Reese ISBN: 1-57392-621-3 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Cure for Boredom
Comment: When I am bored with everything, this is one of the books I like to pick up and browse through. There's so much material here, I'm bound to find something interesting or even inspiring.
Rating: 5
Summary: This has taught me a lot.
Comment: I have been using this book for years, but I never had to learn anything that is in this book, being so amateur in philosophy that I don't have to trouble myself with the ideas for which most of the people in this book have become famous. I have usually expected things to be much simpler than the information which this book has to offer. It has nice definitions of some Greek and Latin words that I find meaningful, once I know what they are supposed to be about. On the Hebrew source of the word "Gehenna," the place used for "the city dump of Jerusalem" where fires burned constantly, the extra information, "according to tradition, [first-born] children had been sacrificed there to the god Moloch," provides a lot of insight into its use in The New Testament, where the King James Version often uses "hell."
For years, this book was my main source of information on Giordano Bruno (1548-1600). I suspect that it is right about "he was condemned to death, and burned alive in the Campo Dei Fiori on February 17, 1600." I have tried to make sense of a few of Bruno's books, like THE EXPULSION OF THE TRIUMPHANT BEAST, but I'm inclined to accept the list of main ideas in this dictionary as the sum of his accomplishments. Dying for the idea that "The universe is infinite" makes more sense than some of his monads, and "To consider reality in its multiplicity" is an achievement that I can appreciate.
On the other hand, the entry for Paul Tillich (1886-1965) illustrates a theologian's ability to distinguish "between three forms of reasoning~heteronymous, autonomous, and theonomous." I thought heteronymous would be pretty good, but Tillich thought that even "Autonomous reason takes its principles from within, but thereby reveals itself as vacuous and tautological." Being able to accept that Tillich would say that is part of being able to appreciate what this book is all about. I'm not saying that these guys are always right about anything.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-have for anyone interested in philosophy/religion
Comment: This book saw me through many a philosophy course, and 8 years later I still find the need to use it for quick, concise cross-referencing of the major tenets of philosophy and religion. I actually won it in a bet while in college. It was the best bet I ever made, which speaks poorly of my gambling ability, but highly of this book.
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Title: A World of Ideas : The Dictionary of Important Ideas and Thinkers by Chris Rohmann ISBN: 0345437063 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy by Robert Audi ISBN: 0521637228 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Simon Blackburn ISBN: 0192831348 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: HarperCollins Dictionary of Philosophy Second Edition : In-Depth Explanations and Examples Covering More than 3,000 Entries (HarperCollins Dictionary) by Peter A. Angeles ISBN: 0064610268 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 12 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich ISBN: 0198661320 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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