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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... scientific and philosophical accounts of the way the world actually is . Some critics of Western religion , who , unlike Marxists , for instance , persist in pursuing a spiritual variety of fullness of life - and this includes Introduction ...
... scientific and philosophical accounts of the way the world actually is . Some critics of Western religion , who , unlike Marxists , for instance , persist in pursuing a spiritual variety of fullness of life - and this includes Introduction ...
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... scientific rationality . In the course of this brief examination of ' pleromatic praxis ' two quite different tasks have emerged . First , the task of resolving an ambiguity attached to a general notion ; and second , the task of ...
... scientific rationality . In the course of this brief examination of ' pleromatic praxis ' two quite different tasks have emerged . First , the task of resolving an ambiguity attached to a general notion ; and second , the task of ...
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... scientific experimentation , with personal experience of a wide variety of social roles : inventor and entrepreneur , prose stylist and religious polemicist , family benefactor and spiritual adept . His Wager argument and his diagnosis ...
... scientific experimentation , with personal experience of a wide variety of social roles : inventor and entrepreneur , prose stylist and religious polemicist , family benefactor and spiritual adept . His Wager argument and his diagnosis ...
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... 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 called religious . The medieval appropriation of ...
... 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 called religious . The medieval appropriation of ...
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... scientific variety , though I recognize that residual influences of religious cosmologies are undoubtedly present . I seek to learn from the more speculative writings of important scientific thinkers while enter- taining little sympathy ...
... scientific variety , though I recognize that residual influences of religious cosmologies are undoubtedly present . I seek to learn from the more speculative writings of important scientific thinkers while enter- taining little sympathy ...
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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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