Pluriverse : An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism

ISBN-13: 9781138017283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 312 str.

Benjamin Paul Blood

Opis

Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience, and that he had come to a realisation of the true nature of reality.

This title is the fullest exposition of Blood s esoteric Christian philosophy-cum-theology, which, though deemed wildly eccentric by commentators both during his lifetime and later in the twentieth century, was nonetheless one of the most influential sources for American mystical-empiricism. In particular, Blood s thought was a major inspiration for William James, and can be seen to prefigure the latter s concept of Sciousness directly.

Spis treści

Introduction ; 1. Duplexity  2. Idealism  3. Monism  4. Cause  5. Self-Relation  6. The Negative  7. Ancillary Unity and the Present Tense  8. Jesus and Free Will  9. The Anaesthetic Revelation;  Supplementary Essay: The Poetical Alphabet

O autorze

Benjamin Paul Blood , Horrace Meyer Kallen