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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... activity , our thinking , and our practice should be based . " This thought is recorded in a recently popular manual ... activities to be entirely eradicated ; rather , in my view , they are to be kept fluid and vital by intellectual ...
... activity , our thinking , and our practice should be based . " This thought is recorded in a recently popular manual ... activities to be entirely eradicated ; rather , in my view , they are to be kept fluid and vital by intellectual ...
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... activities effective for the politically progressive transformation of the social and economic order ; it is ... activity having no goal or function extrinsic to itself , and which achieves social value through its realization of ...
... activities effective for the politically progressive transformation of the social and economic order ; it is ... activity having no goal or function extrinsic to itself , and which achieves social value through its realization of ...
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... activities and aspirations . Now the question deserves to be answered from the opposite point of view , saying why philosophers of religion should attend to practices as well as doctrines . My response is intimated by the two tasks ...
... activities and aspirations . Now the question deserves to be answered from the opposite point of view , saying why philosophers of religion should attend to practices as well as doctrines . My response is intimated by the two tasks ...
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... activities and other forms of public life fell far short of categorical renunciation . Another story , this one preserved by Gilberte's daughter , Marguerite Périer , contributed to Pascal's reputation as an ascetic . She records that ...
... activities and other forms of public life fell far short of categorical renunciation . Another story , this one preserved by Gilberte's daughter , Marguerite Périer , contributed to Pascal's reputation as an ascetic . She records that ...
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... activities which engage the mind only so much as to prevent it from being engaged by the profound concerns of life and death , and sin and salvation . Second , spiritual discipline quiets " the passions . " They allow the dictates of ...
... activities which engage the mind only so much as to prevent it from being engaged by the profound concerns of life and death , and sin and salvation . Second , spiritual discipline quiets " the passions . " They allow the dictates of ...
Содержание
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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 |
Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament Peter H. Van Ness Недоступно для просмотра - 1992 |
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