The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought

Informationen zum Autor Harold Coward is Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is the author and editor of many books, including Religion and Peacebuilding (with Gordon S. Smith) and Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Explores the issue of the perfectibility of nature in philosophy! psychology! and a variety of world religions.

About the author

Harold CowardM is Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is the author of numerous books, including Yoga and Psychology and The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought, both also published by SUNY Press; The Philosophy of the Grammarians (volume five of The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, with K. Kunjunni Raja); Mantra (with David J. Goa); and Pluralism in the World Religions.

Product details

• Authors: Harold Coward, Harold G. Coward
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780791473351
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-7335-1
• No. of pages: 219
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series in Religious Studi; Suny Series in Religious Studi; Suny Religious Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day