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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... persons to be surprised that small numbers of persons can exercise inordinate powers in a democracy ; constitutional rights and egalitarian laws insure that such an exercise of power is not direct and tyrannical , but they allow that it ...
... persons to be surprised that small numbers of persons can exercise inordinate powers in a democracy ; constitutional rights and egalitarian laws insure that such an exercise of power is not direct and tyrannical , but they allow that it ...
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... 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 because I am commanded to do so by God " or " I pray ...
... 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 because I am commanded to do so by God " or " I pray ...
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... persons learn from their critics while bearing witness to the truths they believe most deeply . In recent Christian theology Karl Marx has led many theologians to recognize that traditional conceptions of salvation must include ...
... persons learn from their critics while bearing witness to the truths they believe most deeply . In recent Christian theology Karl Marx has led many theologians to recognize that traditional conceptions of salvation must include ...
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... persons . Hence it is possible to distinguish between a religious speculation which revises religious conceptions of the world and humanity in light of human rationality , and a scientific speculation which revises scientific ...
... persons . Hence it is possible to distinguish between a religious speculation which revises religious conceptions of the world and humanity in light of human rationality , and a scientific speculation which revises scientific ...
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... persons in likewise diverse places . Its most fundamental notions purport to inform human experience in its individual variety and its social diversity , and thereby promise , when used in thinking anew about religious practices , to ...
... persons in likewise diverse places . Its most fundamental notions purport to inform human experience in its individual variety and its social diversity , and thereby promise , when used in thinking anew about religious practices , to ...
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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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