Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary PredicamentState University of New York Press, 22 окт. 1992 г. - Всего страниц: 350 This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation. |
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... Platonic and Stoic notions enlisted for this task by Hellenistic philosophers seemed to me inadequate , and new philosophical resources seemed requisite . I have tried to furnish them by drawing upon key ideas from the formal , physical ...
... Platonic and Stoic notions enlisted for this task by Hellenistic philosophers seemed to me inadequate , and new philosophical resources seemed requisite . I have tried to furnish them by drawing upon key ideas from the formal , physical ...
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... Platonic and Stoic borrowings no longer do well ( Chapters 3-5 ) . Speculation in the ancient world consisted of the rational revision of religious cosmologies and anthropologies . The use of the Logos theme in the first verses of ...
... Platonic and Stoic borrowings no longer do well ( Chapters 3-5 ) . Speculation in the ancient world consisted of the rational revision of religious cosmologies and anthropologies . The use of the Logos theme in the first verses of ...
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... Platonic and Stoic heritage that has informed much Western thinking about spiritual life , yet continue to ascribe value to at least some spiritually disciplined practices , I feel obliged to sketch alternatives to the options I have ...
... Platonic and Stoic heritage that has informed much Western thinking about spiritual life , yet continue to ascribe value to at least some spiritually disciplined practices , I feel obliged to sketch alternatives to the options I have ...
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... Platonic recollections accessible to the privileged few , than they are Peircian anticipations of what will increasingly be confirmed by a process of self - corrective reasoning that benefits from the contributions of diverse ...
... Platonic recollections accessible to the privileged few , than they are Peircian anticipations of what will increasingly be confirmed by a process of self - corrective reasoning that benefits from the contributions of diverse ...
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... Platonic fashion as the individual soul and transcendent God , Kant believed that these notions transgress the limits of possible experience and are therefore rationally insupportable . Yet he also said that they are the product of “ a ...
... Platonic fashion as the individual soul and transcendent God , Kant believed that these notions transgress the limits of possible experience and are therefore rationally insupportable . Yet he also said that they are the product of “ a ...
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A Contemporary Evaluation | 47 |
Semiotic SelfReference | 95 |
Physical Symmetry | 125 |
Biological Equilibration | 159 |
Nietzsches Negation | 203 |
A Novel Response | 233 |
Beyond Diversion and Decadence | 273 |
Select Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 335 |
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Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament Peter Higbie Van Ness Ограниченный просмотр - 1992 |
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