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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... meaning . While I shall deal with the social and political implications of the material I discuss , most of my theological views will remain implicit . Acknowledgements of my own confessional beliefs which , admittedly , influence the ...
... meaning . While I shall deal with the social and political implications of the material I discuss , most of my theological views will remain implicit . Acknowledgements of my own confessional beliefs which , admittedly , influence the ...
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... itself , and which achieves social value through its realization of some intrinsic goodness ( Nicomachean Ethics 1140b ) . Resolution of this ambiguity in the meaning of praxis as Spirituality , Diversion , and Decadence.
... itself , and which achieves social value through its realization of some intrinsic goodness ( Nicomachean Ethics 1140b ) . Resolution of this ambiguity in the meaning of praxis as Spirituality , Diversion , and Decadence.
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... meaning in the speculations of Gnostic thinkers like the Alexandrian Valentinus . For him the Pleroma was a hier- archical assembly of personified divine attributes that collectively constituted a primordial realm of being . Pregnant ...
... meaning in the speculations of Gnostic thinkers like the Alexandrian Valentinus . For him the Pleroma was a hier- archical assembly of personified divine attributes that collectively constituted a primordial realm of being . Pregnant ...
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... meanings of apology and speculation as dimensions of the philosophy of religion and will indicate the ways in which ... meaning defense , is inseparable from criticism as the opposite which engenders it . Thus apology may be understood ...
... meanings of apology and speculation as dimensions of the philosophy of religion and will indicate the ways in which ... meaning defense , is inseparable from criticism as the opposite which engenders it . Thus apology may be understood ...
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... meaning and efficacy to transformed versions of traditional religious practices . What intervenes between the first and third parts of the book is a speculative interlude in which alternative notions are suggested for doing the ...
... meaning and efficacy to transformed versions of traditional religious practices . What intervenes between the first and third parts of the book is a speculative interlude in which alternative notions are suggested for doing the ...
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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