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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... conception of praxis as the embodied action of a spiritual agent is aptly descriptive of the regimens of behavior that are the object of study here ; however its usage would be anachronistic in a contemporary theological context where ...
... conception of praxis as the embodied action of a spiritual agent is aptly descriptive of the regimens of behavior that are the object of study here ; however its usage would be anachronistic in a contemporary theological context where ...
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... conception of what a contemporary spiritual discipline should be ( Chapter 7.A - C ) . The greatest recommendation for religious apologetics is that religious persons learn from their critics while bearing witness to the truths they ...
... conception of what a contemporary spiritual discipline should be ( Chapter 7.A - C ) . The greatest recommendation for religious apologetics is that religious persons learn from their critics while bearing witness to the truths they ...
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... religious speculation which revises religious conceptions of the world and humanity ... conception of speculative philosophy , Whitehead defines philosophical ... spiritual life , yet continue to ascribe value to at least some spiritually ...
... religious speculation which revises religious conceptions of the world and humanity ... conception of speculative philosophy , Whitehead defines philosophical ... spiritual life , yet continue to ascribe value to at least some spiritually ...
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... spiritual disciplines . My acknowledgement of a debt to Whitehead should not ... notion - symmetry as the state of being well- proportioned ; to investigate ... religious cosmologies are undoubtedly present . I seek to learn from the more ...
... spiritual disciplines . My acknowledgement of a debt to Whitehead should not ... notion - symmetry as the state of being well- proportioned ; to investigate ... religious cosmologies are undoubtedly present . I seek to learn from the more ...
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... spiritual may seem to be a topic of study ill - suited to rational inquiry . This is not the view of an increasing community of scholars in the field of religious studies for whom spirituality is an area of renewed investigation . ' ...
... spiritual may seem to be a topic of study ill - suited to rational inquiry . This is not the view of an increasing community of scholars in the field of religious studies for whom spirituality is an area of renewed investigation . ' ...
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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