Critical Realism and Spirituality

ISBN-13: 9780415496247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 384 str.

Mervyn Hartwig;Jamie Morgan

Opis

This text brings together ongoing debate over the existence and nature of God within the western philosophical tradition with consideration of the attempt by meta-reality to transcend the philosophical, and spiritual divisions of West and East, by regrounding the relative in the absolute.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I The Resurgence of Religion and Spirituality  1. The rise of neo-integrative worldviews: towards a rational spirituality for the coming planetary civilization?  2. Beyond fundamentalism: spiritual realism, spiritual literacy and education  3. Realism, literature and spirituality  Part II Theism and Atheism  4. Judgemental rationality and the equivalence of argument: realism about God  5. Response to Morgan’s critique  6. Transcendence and God: reflections on critical realism, the ‘New Atheism’, and Christian theology  7. Human sciences at the edge of panentheism: God and the limits of ontological realism  8. Beyond East and West  Part III Spirituality and meta-Reality  9. Meta-Reality (re-)contextualized  10. Anti-anthropic spirituality: dualism, duality and non-duality  11. ‘The more you kick God out the front door, the more he comes in through the window’: Sean Creaven’s critique of transcendental dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of meta-Reality  12. Resisting the theistic turn  13. The pulse of freedom and the existential dilemma of alienation  14. Meta-Reality, creativity and the experience of making art