by Jean-François Revel, Matthieu Ricard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782841110667
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«Le moine et le philosophe» is the philosophical dialogue by Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard, in paperback.
In this book, the philosopher Jean-François Revel and the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard discuss Buddhism and its place in the world today. Throughout the dialogue, father and son contrast Western rationality with Eastern spirituality and explore how Buddhist doctrines can be applied to daily life, without renouncing a critical perspective.
The work was published in 1997 with the subtitle «Le bouddhisme aujourd'hui» and includes bibliographic references.
A work for those seeking a dialogue-based approach between philosophy and Buddhism, and for readers interested in spirituality and contemporary thought.
Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free market economics. He was a member of the Académie française after June 1998. He is best known for his book Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun, published in French in 1970.
