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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... critics . I am especially grateful for conversations I have had in recent years with members of the " Spirituality Study Group " that Ewert Cousins has informally gathered at Columbia University in recent years . * Copyright , 1988 and ...
... critics . I am especially grateful for conversations I have had in recent years with members of the " Spirituality Study Group " that Ewert Cousins has informally gathered at Columbia University in recent years . * Copyright , 1988 and ...
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... criticism and imaginative rethinking so that they might be aids rather than obstacles to their associated activities . Here is a more constructive agenda for the philosophical treatment of this material : to provide metaphorical ...
... criticism and imaginative rethinking so that they might be aids rather than obstacles to their associated activities . Here is a more constructive agenda for the philosophical treatment of this material : to provide metaphorical ...
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... critics who contend that practices described as spiritual disciplines are , in fact , impediments rather than aids to worldly human flourishing . ' Pleroma ' harbors a similarly fundamental ambiguity . ' Pleroma ' and its cognates were ...
... critics who contend that practices described as spiritual disciplines are , in fact , impediments rather than aids to worldly human flourishing . ' Pleroma ' harbors a similarly fundamental ambiguity . ' Pleroma ' and its cognates were ...
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... critics who contend that contemporary spirituality demands an imaginative freedom from prevailing conceptions of scientific rationality . In the course of this brief examination of ' pleromatic praxis ' two quite different tasks have ...
... critics who contend that contemporary spirituality demands an imaginative freedom from prevailing conceptions of scientific rationality . In the course of this brief examination of ' pleromatic praxis ' two quite different tasks have ...
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... criticized tenets of Greek Olympian religion . Socrates himself was especially adamant in offering the philosopher as an ... criticism as the opposite which engenders it . Thus apology may be understood to be argument- ative discourse ...
... criticized tenets of Greek Olympian religion . Socrates himself was especially adamant in offering the philosopher as an ... criticism as the opposite which engenders it . Thus apology may be understood to be argument- ative discourse ...
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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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