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    A Comparative History of World Philosophy: From the Upanishads to Kant.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1998 - State University of New York Press.
    Breaks through the cultural barriers between Western, Indian, and Chinese philosophy and demonstrates that despite considerable differences between these three great philosophical traditions, there are fundamental resemblances in their abstract principles.
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    Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 2009 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements ...
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    Philosophy East/philosophy West: a critical comparison of Indian, Chinese, Islamic, and European philosophy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein (ed.) - 1978 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    An introduction to comparative philosophy relates European and Oriental philosophies and brings to light such aspects of Eastern philosophy as intellectuality, reasoning, and logical analysis usually associated with Western thought.
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    The Dilemma of Context.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1989 - NYU Press.
    In The Dilemma of Context, Scharfstein contends that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable,can become so heavy it destroys the understandingit was created to further.
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    The philosophers: their lives and the nature of their thought.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1980 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    The adventure I am now undertaking is an appraisal of my profession, philosophy, of my fellow professionals, the philosophers, and, finally of myself at least ...
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    A Comparative History of World Philosophy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1999 - Philosophy East and West 49 (1):96-97.
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    Mystical experience.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1973 - Oxford,: Blackwell.
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    Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1993 - SUNY Press.
    Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday difficulty with words in the ineffable reality of the philosophers and theologians, just as there is something unformulable, and finally mysterious in the prosaic, everyday successes and failures of words.
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    Salvation By Parad Ox : On Zen and Zen-Like Thought.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1976 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (3):209-234.
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    Roots of Bergson's philosophy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1943 - New York,: Columbia university press.
    ROOTS OF BERGSONS PHILOSOPHY Ben-Ami Scharfstein ROOTS OF BERGSONS PHILOSOPHY NEW YORK MCMXLIII COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS To My Father and Mother ...
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    How important is truth to epistemology and knowledge? Some answers from comparative philosophy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 2001 - Social Epistemology 15 (4):275 – 283.
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    The Contextual Fallacy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1989 - In Richard Rorty (ed.), Review of I nterpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 84-97.
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  13. A B s T r a C t.Shlomo Biderman, Ben-Ami Scharfstein & Joseph Agassi - unknown
    The traditional hermeneutic ruling not to use reports and legends for questioning edicts and rules signifies the tacit recognition, contrary to explicit statement, of the part of the Rabbinical leadership, of the inevitability of change in diverse aspects if Jewish life. This may invite criticism of the conduct of the ancient leadership, which, as always, is questionable and useless. Rather, an open discussion should be instituted on the proposal to make future changes openly, not surreptitiously; particularly the change from surreptitious (...)
     
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    Unless there are Hills and Valleys in One’s Breast: On the Inward Life of Chinese Landscape Painting.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1976 - Journal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (4):317-354.
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    Interpretation in Religion.Shlomo Biderman & Ben-Ami Scharfstein (eds.) - 1992 - BRILL.
    Interpretation in Religion is the work of a group of contemporary American, European, and Israeli scholars and philosophers, who analyze the crucial course of interpretation in religion -- religion in general, and, in particular, Hinduism, ancient Egyptian religion, Judaism, christianity, and Islam.
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  16. (1 other version)Rationality in Question. On Eastern and Western views of rationality. Leiden: EJ Brill.Shlomo Biderman & Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1989 - In Nand Kishore Devaraja (ed.), Philosophy and religion. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study in association with Indus Pub. Co.. pp. 1.
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    (1 other version)Letters to the editor.I. Grattan-Guinness, Ben-Ami Scharfstein & Peter Loptson - 1983 - History and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2):221-224.
    One of the books submitted for review to this journal was B.?A. Scharfstein's The philosophers: their lives and the nature of their thought (1980, Oxford). Although not explicitly concerned with logic, it raised various questions for history and historiography (possibilities for psycho-history, for example). Thus I sought a review, which was written by P. Loptson and published in volume 3 (1982), 105?107. The ensuing correspondence has been edited for publication by me, with the authors? approval.
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    Analyse des poetischen Denkens.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1955 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 14 (1):134-135.
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    Amoral Politics: The Persistent Truth of Machiavellism.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1995 - State University of New York Press.
    After exploring the theory and practice of politics in ancient China, ancient India, and modern Europe, Scharfstein argues that the justification for deception and force is inseparable from political life and assesses the chances for a better political future.
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    Bergson and Merleau-Ponty: A Preliminary Comparison.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1955 - Journal of Philosophy 52 (14):380.
  21. Descartes' Dreams.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1969 - Philosophical Forum 1 (3):293.
     
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  22. Filosofyah Ba-Mizrah U-Filosofyah Ba-Ma'arav.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1978 - Yahdav.
  23. ha-Oman be-tarbuyot ha-ʻolam.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1970 - [Tel Aviv]: ʻAm ʻoved.
     
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    How Death Deals with Philosophy.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 2011 - In Hagi Kenaan & Ilit Ferber (eds.), Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking. New York: Springer. pp. 201--208.
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  25. 'Il dubbio alle loro due case!' La cecità occidentale nei confronti delle filosofie non occidentali.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1997 - In Sergio Cremaschi (ed.), Filosofia Analitica e Filosofia Continentale. 50018 Scandicci, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy: La Nuova Italia. pp. 253-282.
     
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    Luitzen Brouwer and the snake.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1975 - Philosophia 5 (4):523-527.
  27. Los filósofos y sus vidas. Para una historia psicológica de la filosofía.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1987 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 43 (1):218-220.
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    Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of Art.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1990 - Philosophy East and West 40 (4):574-578.
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    On the Transparency and Opacity of Philosophers.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1988 - The Monist 71 (3):455-465.
    Sometimes our thought is transparently clear. It is as if we were looking through a window whose clarity was an invitation for the world to come in. The pleasure we take in thinking transparent thoughts is like that we take in the unimpeded use of any ability; but such transparency is unique in that it suggests easy communication with oneself and others, the ability to nullify problems by seeing through them, and a clean, physically effortless mastery of life.
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    Philosophy East, Philosophy West.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1980 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 170 (4):465-466.
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  31. (1 other version)Roots of Bergson's Philosophy.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1943 - Philosophical Review 52:626.
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    Reply to L. A. Barth's review of "philosophy east/philosophy west in philosophy east and west", April, 1980.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1981 - Philosophy East and West 31 (3):391 - 392.
  33. Shen Mi Ching Yen.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1982 - T Ien Hua Ch U Pan Shih Yeh Ku Fen Yu Hsing Kung Ssu.
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  34. Toldot ha-filosofyah: meha-Renesans ṿe-ʻad Ḳanṭ.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1978 - [Tel Aviv]: Maṭkal/Ḳetsin ḥinukh rashi/Gale Tsahal, Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon.
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    The Mind of China: The Culture, Customs, and Beliefs of Traditional China.Ben-ami Scharfstein - 1975 - Philosophy East and West 25 (4):492-493.
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    The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and Death.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 2014 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    What if Immanuel Kant floated down from his transcendental heights, straight through Alice’s rabbit hole, and into the fabulous world of Lewis Carroll? For Ben-Ami Scharfstein this is a wonderfully instructive scenario and the perfect way to begin this wide-ranging collection of decades of startlingly synthesized thought. Combining a deep knowledge of psychology, cultural anthropology, art history, and the history of religions—not to mention philosophy—he demonstrates again and again the unpredictability of writing and thought and how they can teach us (...)
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  37. The Need to Philosophize.Ben-Ami Scharfstein & Mortimer Ostow - 1970 - In Charles Hanly & Morris Lazerowitz (eds.), Psychoanalysis and philosophy. New York,: International Universities Press. pp. 258--279.
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    The philosopher as the rational artist.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1968 - Man and World 1 (2):240-266.
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    The Western Blindness to Non-Western Philosophies.Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5:102-108.
    Western philosophers still tend to think that philosophy, in a sense that they can take with professional interest, does not exist in non-Western traditions. To persuade them otherwise would require them to make an effort that they prefer to evade. I attempt to begin to persuade them by closely paraphrasing a few arguments by the early Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu and a few by the Indian skeptic and mystic Shriharsha. One of Chuang Tzu's arguments has some resemblance to Plato's Third-Man (...)
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    Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism. [REVIEW]Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1957 - Journal of Philosophy 54 (3):76-78.
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    Book reviews. [REVIEW]Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Stewart Shapiro, Gary Jason, John Blackmore, R. A. Naulty & F. Bradford Wallack - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (4):551-570.
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    The Creative Mind. [REVIEW]Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1946 - Journal of Philosophy 43 (10):278-278.
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    Walter Kaufmann, "Discovering the Mind". [REVIEW]Ben-Ami Scharfstein - 1983 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (2):244.