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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... knowledge Aristotle called theoretical , i.e. , that knowledge whose end is truth rather than action , and which can be characterized by its degree of abstraction from matter and motion ( Metaphysics 993b20 and 1026a15 ) . References to ...
... knowledge Aristotle called theoretical , i.e. , that knowledge whose end is truth rather than action , and which can be characterized by its degree of abstraction from matter and motion ( Metaphysics 993b20 and 1026a15 ) . References to ...
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... knowledge , and peace . Apology was said to take two distinct forms because its argumentative nature implicitly posits a critical counterpart to an intellectual defense . Speculation also adopts two forms , but does so for quite ...
... knowledge , and peace . Apology was said to take two distinct forms because its argumentative nature implicitly posits a critical counterpart to an intellectual defense . Speculation also adopts two forms , but does so for quite ...
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... knowledge is said to give dignity to human wretchedness . Elsewhere Pascal suggests that it can flaw rare experiences of happiness : he envies the faithful who live " so unconcernedly ( avec tant de négligence ) " ; 10 he recommends ...
... knowledge is said to give dignity to human wretchedness . Elsewhere Pascal suggests that it can flaw rare experiences of happiness : he envies the faithful who live " so unconcernedly ( avec tant de négligence ) " ; 10 he recommends ...
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... knowledge of the natural world seemed to alienate him from nature ; he was a prose stylist whose most public communications seemed to accompany his increasing retirement to a strict religious community ; and he was a philosopher whose ...
... knowledge of the natural world seemed to alienate him from nature ; he was a prose stylist whose most public communications seemed to accompany his increasing retirement to a strict religious community ; and he was a philosopher whose ...
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... knowledge . Unlike Descartes , Pascal understood methodological prescriptions for securing first principles as strategies for attaining happiness apart from God , or at least , apart 36 from revealed truth . Just as people seek comfort ...
... knowledge . Unlike Descartes , Pascal understood methodological prescriptions for securing first principles as strategies for attaining happiness apart from God , or at least , apart 36 from revealed truth . Just as people seek comfort ...
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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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