Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Auxier, Randall E.; Stone, Lucian W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Lewis Edwin Hahn: Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Randall E. Auxier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Lucian W. Stone, Jr. is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Southern Illinois University
Table of Contents
| Frontispiece | p. iv |
| General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers | p. vii |
| Founder's General Introduction to the Library of Living Philosophers | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xvii |
| Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | p. 1 |
| Sample of Nasr's Handwriting | p. 2 |
| Intellectual Autobiography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | p. 3 |
| Descriptive and Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, with replies | p. 87 |
| "From the Niche of Prophecy": Nasr's Position On Islamic Philosophy Within The Islamic Tradition In Excerpts And Commentary | p. 89 |
| Reply to Muhammad Suheyl Umar | p. 132 |
| Philosophia Perennis | |
| Nasr's Defense of the Perennial Philosophy | p. 139 |
| Reply to Huston Smith | p. 159 |
| Perennial Philosophy in a Public Context | p. 169 |
| Reply to Robert Cummings Neville | p. 190 |
| The Philosophia Perennis and the Religions of the World | p. 203 |
| Reply to Sallie B. King | p. 221 |
| Revisioning Classical Hinduism Through Philosophia Perennis | p. 233 |
| Reply to Arvind Sharma | p. 248 |
| Reflections on Tradition and Modernity: A Response to Seyyed Hossein Nasr from a Neo-Confucian Perspective | p. 253 |
| Reply to Shu-Hsien Liu | p. 270 |
| Nasr and the Quest for the Sacred | p. 277 |
| Reply to Ernest Wolf-Gazo | p. 304 |
| Buddhist Creative Metaphysics and Islamic Thought | p. 313 |
| Reply to Kenneth K. Inada | p. 327 |
| Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Time and Eternity | p. 335 |
| Reply to G. F. McLean and R. K. Khuri | p. 358 |
| Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Philosophy of Art | p. 371 |
| Reply to Eliot Deutsch | p. 381 |
| Knowledge of the Sacred: The Mystical Poetry of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | p. 393 |
| Reply to Luce Lopez-Baralt | p. 420 |
| A Nasr Sentence: Some Comments | p. 429 |
| Reply to A. K. Saran | p. 440 |
| Science and Human Knowledge | |
| The Sacred versus the Secular: Nasr on Science | p. 445 |
| Reply to Ibrahim Kalin | p. 463 |
| Sophia Perennis and Modern Science | p. 469 |
| Reply to Wolfgang Smith | p. 486 |
| Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Religion, Nature, and Science | p. 493 |
| Reply to Giovanni Monastra | p. 512 |
| The Quest for the Universal Global Science | p. 519 |
| Reply to Ashok K. Gangadean | p. 542 |
| Philosophia Perennis and Scientia Sacra in a Postmodern World | p. 551 |
| Reply to Mehdi Aminrazavi | p. 563 |
| Nasr's Absolute Everything and Nothing | p. 571 |
| Reply to Archie J. Bahm | p. 581 |
| The Concept of Spiritual Knowledge in the Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | p. 589 |
| Reply to Judy D. Saltzman | p. 612 |
| Its World and the World at Large | |
| The Essential Relation Between Revelation and Philosophy in Islam and Its Importance in Understanding the Nature and History of Islamic Philosophy | p. 619 |
| Reply to Zailan Moris | p. 632 |
| Islamic Philosophical Theology | p. 639 |
| Reply to David B. Burrell | p. 658 |
| Sufism in the Thought of S. H. Nasr | p. 669 |
| Reply to Leonard Lewisohn | p. 679 |
| The Absent Men in Islamic Cosmology | p. 685 |
| Reply to William C. Chittick | p. 710 |
| Know the World to Know Yourself | p. 717 |
| Reply to Pierre Lory | p. 728 |
| The Transcendent Spirit, Private Language Fallacy, and Islamization of Ibn Sina: Reflections on the Works of S. H. Nasr | p. 735 |
| Reply to Parviz Morewedge | p. 753 |
| Nur al-Fu'ad, a Nineteenth-Century Persian Text in Illuminationist Philosophy by Shihab al-Din Kumijani | p. 763 |
| Reply to Hossein Ziai | p. 775 |
| Nasr: Thinker of the Sacred | p. 781 |
| Reply to Enes Karic | p. 792 |
| Seyyed Hossein Nasr: Apologist or Reformer of Islam? | p. 799 |
| Reply to Marietta Stepaniants | p. 809 |
| Perennial Philosophy Now: The Case of Wilayat-i Faqih | p. 813 |
| Reply to Lucian W. Stone, Jr. | p. 827 |
| Bibliography of Seyyed Hossein Nasr | p. 831 |
| Index | p. 965 |
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