The Riddle of the Sphinx : Thoughts About the Human Enigma
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
081917887X
ISBN-13
9780819178879
Publisher
University Press of America
Imprint
University Press of America
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 1990
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
313 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 13.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontologyPhilosophy of religion
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Through a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life.
Through a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life. Along with those texts written by the author himself are selections from such sources as Genesis and Lao Tzu, Plato and the Upanishads, Hume and Wittgenstein, Augustine and Ecclesiastes, to name but a few. Topics range from the nature of language to pleasure and pain to life after death. Most of the classical questions of the philosophy of religion are introduced. Contents: The Sphinx; Words; Good and Evil; Time; The Self; Pleasure and Pain; That None Greater Than Which can be Conceived; Knowing and Not Knowing; Prescription; Transformation; The Good Life; and Life After Death.
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