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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... forms . I take this opportunity to thank the editors and publishers of the journals listed below for their permission to reprint the following materials : " Linguistic Self - Reference and Religious Language , " Union Seminary Quarterly ...
... forms . I take this opportunity to thank the editors and publishers of the journals listed below for their permission to reprint the following materials : " Linguistic Self - Reference and Religious Language , " Union Seminary Quarterly ...
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... forms is certainly regarded as religious behavior by persons who pray and by persons who observe them , even by observers who are not themselves religious . If asked why they do it , praying persons might answer by saying , " I pray ...
... forms is certainly regarded as religious behavior by persons who pray and by persons who observe them , even by observers who are not themselves religious . If asked why they do it , praying persons might answer by saying , " I pray ...
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... forms , i.e , in its historical occurrences as apology and speculation . Apology and speculation are forms of intellectual discourse which have fallen into disfavor with many recent thinkers . Karl Barth and his heirs have excoriated ...
... forms , i.e , in its historical occurrences as apology and speculation . Apology and speculation are forms of intellectual discourse which have fallen into disfavor with many recent thinkers . Karl Barth and his heirs have excoriated ...
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... forms because its argumentative nature implicitly posits a critical counterpart to an intellectual defense . Speculation also adopts two forms , but does so for quite different reasons . Speculation is a venture of inquiry rather than ...
... forms because its argumentative nature implicitly posits a critical counterpart to an intellectual defense . Speculation also adopts two forms , but does so for quite different reasons . Speculation is a venture of inquiry rather than ...
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... forms of Western and Eastern spiritual disciplines . My acknowledgement of a debt to Whitehead should not lead the reader to expect a contribution to " Process Thought . " Whitehead exemplifies well , but not exclusively , the sort of ...
... forms of Western and Eastern spiritual disciplines . My acknowledgement of a debt to Whitehead should not lead the reader to expect a contribution to " Process Thought . " Whitehead exemplifies well , but not exclusively , the sort of ...
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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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