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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... truth of one's intellectual convictions . Yet just because the manner of reflection is philosophical , attention will especially be given to the nature of participants ' descriptions of their religious practices and to their reasons for ...
... truth of one's intellectual convictions . Yet just because the manner of reflection is philosophical , attention will especially be given to the nature of participants ' descriptions of their religious practices and to their reasons for ...
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... truth that our activity , our thinking , and our practice should be based . " This thought is recorded in a recently popular manual of Zen Buddhist meditation ; there Suzuki encourages the development of a mind empty of privileged ...
... truth that our activity , our thinking , and our practice should be based . " This thought is recorded in a recently popular manual of Zen Buddhist meditation ; there Suzuki encourages the development of a mind empty of privileged ...
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... truth and value . Conversely , a genuinely significant project in the philosophy of religion that professes no apologetic or speculative dimensions is , in my mind , guilty of dissimulation . Certainly philosophers may choose to pursue ...
... truth and value . Conversely , a genuinely significant project in the philosophy of religion that professes no apologetic or speculative dimensions is , in my mind , guilty of dissimulation . Certainly philosophers may choose to pursue ...
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... truths they believe most deeply . In recent Christian theology Karl Marx has led many theologians to recognize that ... truth rather than action , and which can be characterized by its degree of abstraction from matter and motion ...
... truths they believe most deeply . In recent Christian theology Karl Marx has led many theologians to recognize that ... truth rather than action , and which can be characterized by its degree of abstraction from matter and motion ...
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... truths , as I understand them , are less Platonic recollections accessible to the privileged few , than they are Peircian anticipations of what will increasingly be confirmed by a process of self - corrective reasoning that benefits ...
... truths , as I understand them , are less Platonic recollections accessible to the privileged few , than they are Peircian anticipations of what will increasingly be confirmed by a process of self - corrective reasoning that benefits ...
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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