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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... human mind is capable . In this instance prayer not only posits God's existence as an extraordinary being , but it also claims to discover distinctive , and perhaps , unique , dimensions of what it means to be human . This second ...
... human mind is capable . In this instance prayer not only posits God's existence as an extraordinary being , but it also claims to discover distinctive , and perhaps , unique , dimensions of what it means to be human . This second ...
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... human action construed in accordance with a specific reflective interest . In the later Hellenistic period the word was used to describe religious behavior : the New Testament collection of writings about the apostolic labors of Peter ...
... human action construed in accordance with a specific reflective interest . In the later Hellenistic period the word was used to describe religious behavior : the New Testament collection of writings about the apostolic labors of Peter ...
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... human flourishing . ' Pleroma ' harbors a similarly fundamental ambiguity . ' Pleroma ' and its cognates were often used in Hellenistic religious thought to identify a condition of human well - being consisting of more than purely human ...
... human flourishing . ' Pleroma ' harbors a similarly fundamental ambiguity . ' Pleroma ' and its cognates were often used in Hellenistic religious thought to identify a condition of human well - being consisting of more than purely human ...
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... humanity in light of human rationality , and a scientific speculation which revises scientific cosmologies and anthropologies in light of human religiosity - in light of those aspects of self and world that have been traditionally ...
... humanity in light of human rationality , and a scientific speculation which revises scientific cosmologies and anthropologies in light of human religiosity - in light of those aspects of self and world that have been traditionally ...
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... human , are not given , but simply aimed at . " 1 Ricoeur concludes that it is only in intention that wholeness and ... human existence is here hypothesized to have an outer and inner complexion . Facing outward , human existence is ...
... human , are not given , but simply aimed at . " 1 Ricoeur concludes that it is only in intention that wholeness and ... human existence is here hypothesized to have an outer and inner complexion . Facing outward , human existence is ...
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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