-
Toldot ha-filosofyah: meha-Renesans ṿe-ʻad ḲanṭMaṭkal/Ḳetsin ḥinukh rashi/Gale Tsahal, Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon. 1978.
-
34Walter Kaufmann, "Discovering the Mind" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (2): 244. 1983.
-
4Interpretation in Religion (edited book)BRILL. 1992.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.
-
47Rationality in question: on Eastern and Western views of rationality (edited book)E.J. Brill. 1989.Rationality and Logic J. Kekes i It is a basic assumption of the Western intellectual and moral tradition that rationality is a central value. ...
-
'Il dubbio alle loro due case!' La cecità occidentale nei confronti delle filosofie non occidentaliIn Sergio Cremaschi (ed.), Filosofia analitica e filosofia continentale, La Nuova Italia. pp. 253-282. 1997.
-
5Salvation By Parad Ox : On Zen and Zen-Like ThoughtJournal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (3): 209-234. 1976.
-
15The Western Blindness to Non-Western PhilosophiesThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 102-108. 1998.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 argu…Read more
-
The three philosophical traditionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 59 235-296. 1997.
-
13The Contextual FallacyIn Richard Rorty (ed.), Review of I nterpreting Across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 84-97. 1989.
-
14Philosophy East, Philosophy WestRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 170 (4): 465-466. 1980.
-
8Ineffability: The Failure of Words in Philosophy and ReligionSUNY Press. 1993.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.
-
52Bergson and Merleau-ponty: A preliminary comparisonJournal of Philosophy 52 (14): 380-386. 1955.
-
32Unless there are Hills and Valleys in One’s Breast: On the Inward Life of Chinese Landscape PaintingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 3 (4): 317-354. 1976.
-
3The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll: Unexpected Essays on Philosophy, Art, Life, and DeathUniversity of Chicago Press. 2014.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 unpredi…Read more
-
24Of Birds, Beasts, and Other Artists: An Essay on the Universality of ArtPhilosophy East and West 40 (4): 574-578. 1990.
-
17A Comparative History of World Philosophy: From the Upanishads to KantState University of New York Press. 1998.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
-
26Philosophy East/philosophy West: a critical comparison of Indian, Chinese, Islamic, and European philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1978.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