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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... behavior . Via advertising pitches and expert advice they achieve this control by inculcating habitual patterns of consumption in malleable populations . How one consumes products and services , and especially information and ...
... behavior . Via advertising pitches and expert advice they achieve this control by inculcating habitual patterns of consumption in malleable populations . How one consumes products and services , and especially information and ...
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... behavior which purport to promote human well - being , and which both agents and observers regard as distinctively religious or spiritual . Religious behaviors , therefore , are a more central concern than religious doctrines , and ...
... behavior which purport to promote human well - being , and which both agents and observers regard as distinctively religious or spiritual . Religious behaviors , therefore , are a more central concern than religious doctrines , and ...
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... behavior typical of contemporary life.1 I shall sometimes appeal to non - Western materials for which I provide little historical commentary . This practice exposes my historical limitations , but the risk involved is worthwhile , I ...
... behavior typical of contemporary life.1 I shall sometimes appeal to non - Western materials for which I provide little historical commentary . This practice exposes my historical limitations , but the risk involved is worthwhile , I ...
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... behavior are described and justified , with a special emphasis on making such language continuous with the most adequate general explanations of the world and so relevant to the full expanse of human experience . David Ray Griffin has ...
... behavior are described and justified , with a special emphasis on making such language continuous with the most adequate general explanations of the world and so relevant to the full expanse of human experience . David Ray Griffin has ...
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... behavior : the New Testament collection of writings about the apostolic labors of Peter and Paul acquired the title of ' IIPAEEIE AПOETAN ' ( The Acts of the Apostles ) . A second- century Middle Platonist , Albinus , expressly defined ...
... behavior : the New Testament collection of writings about the apostolic labors of Peter and Paul acquired the title of ' IIPAEEIE AПOETAN ' ( The Acts of the Apostles ) . A second- century Middle Platonist , Albinus , expressly defined ...
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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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