The perfectibility of human nature in eastern and western thought /

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Author / Creator:	Coward, Harold G.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 219 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in religious studies SUNY series in religious studies.
Subject:	Perfection. Perfection -- Religious aspects. Philosophical anthropology. Perfection. Perfection -- Religious aspects. Philosophical anthropology. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162435

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ISBN:	9781435632110 1435632117 9780791473368 0791473368 0791478858 9780791478851 079147335X 0791473368 9780791473351 9780791478851
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"How perfectible is human nature as understood in Eastern and Western philosophy, psychology, and religion? Harold Coward examines some of the very different answers to this question. He poses that in Western thought, including philosophy, psychology, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, human nature is often understood as finite, flawed, and not perfectible - in religion requiring God's grace and the afterlife to reach the goal. By contrast, Eastern thought arising in India frequently sees human nature to be perfectible and presumes that we will be reborn until we realize the goal - the various yoga psychologies, philosophies, and religions of Hinduism and Buddhism being the paths by which one may perfect oneself and realize release from rebirth. Coward uses the striking differences in the assessment of how perfectible human nature is as the comparative focus for this book."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Coward, Harold G. Perfectibility of human nature in eastern and western thought. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791473351 079147335X

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