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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... sort of answer might be given to this same inquiry about prayer . For instance , one might claim that prayer is warranted because it consistently directs one's attention away from quotidian concerns and entertains the most exalted ...
... sort of answer might be given to this same inquiry about prayer . For instance , one might claim that prayer is warranted because it consistently directs one's attention away from quotidian concerns and entertains the most exalted ...
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... sort of description and justification that will be investigated in the pages that follow . Scholarly treatments of topics like prayer and fasting , and meditation and solitude , have most often been undertaken by historians and ...
... sort of description and justification that will be investigated in the pages that follow . Scholarly treatments of topics like prayer and fasting , and meditation and solitude , have most often been undertaken by historians and ...
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... sort of spiritual life . The Zen Buddhist monk , Shunryu Suzuki , was one such teacher : " By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing .... It is on this original truth that our activity , our thinking , and our practice should be ...
... sort of spiritual life . The Zen Buddhist monk , Shunryu Suzuki , was one such teacher : " By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing .... It is on this original truth that our activity , our thinking , and our practice should be ...
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... sort of 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 ) ...
... sort of 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 ) ...
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... sort of speculation . Alfred North Whitehead's inclusion of God in the categoreal scheme of his philosophy of organism is one of the most influential ventures of the sort of speculation I have called scientific . The technique Whitehead ...
... sort of speculation . Alfred North Whitehead's inclusion of God in the categoreal scheme of his philosophy of organism is one of the most influential ventures of the sort of speculation I have called scientific . The technique Whitehead ...
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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