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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... sense , but also in looser imaginative sense . Upon describing one version of the worlds come forth from the Gnostic Pleroma , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons and contemporary of Valentinus , writes that " Everyday one of them ( the ...
... sense , but also in looser imaginative sense . Upon describing one version of the worlds come forth from the Gnostic Pleroma , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons and contemporary of Valentinus , writes that " Everyday one of them ( the ...
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... sense has been understood to be a rational defense of religious beliefs and practices . The most celebrated apology in antiquity was Socrates ' defense before an Athenian jury ; there he responded to several charges , among them an ...
... sense has been understood to be a rational defense of religious beliefs and practices . The most celebrated apology in antiquity was Socrates ' defense before an Athenian jury ; there he responded to several charges , among them an ...
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... sense - as both intentionally related to that totality and yet also a part of it . Spiritual selfhood is thus something defined with reference to a totality of which it is a part , and as Bertrand Russell has especially taught , it is ...
... sense - as both intentionally related to that totality and yet also a part of it . Spiritual selfhood is thus something defined with reference to a totality of which it is a part , and as Bertrand Russell has especially taught , it is ...
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... sense of worth as a human being . A radical depreciation of nature , society , and self seems to inform Pascal's deliberations about what one should do when bemired in sin and confronted by death . Supernatural revelation , submission ...
... sense of worth as a human being . A radical depreciation of nature , society , and self seems to inform Pascal's deliberations about what one should do when bemired in sin and confronted by death . Supernatural revelation , submission ...
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... sense that a rational part of the soul is given the task of mastering its appetitive and spirited complements . Yet there is also an Aristotelian element here because Pascal talks about habit as the empowering force in Christian ...
... sense that a rational part of the soul is given the task of mastering its appetitive and spirited complements . Yet there is also an Aristotelian element here because Pascal talks about habit as the empowering force in Christian ...
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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