Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice

ISBN-13: 9780521771696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 302 str.

Michael McGhee (University of Liverpool)

Opis

This book deals with issues at the intersection of philosophy, theology, religious studies and Buddhist studies; in moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. It is written by a philosopher but in a quasi-autobiographical style, reflecting the relations between the form of a person's life and the nature of their philosophical reflections. It deals with questions of spirituality, moral feeling, the distinction between theistic and nontheistic religion, the impact of the Death of God controversy, and the nature of Buddhist forms of meditation and their relation to perception and action.

Recenzje

'… what we have in this book is the story of a profoundly searching Western mind, steeped in European high culture and philosophy and invigorated by a very new conception of Buddhist praxis. This work, rich, dense, though at times elusive, has a pedigree among the eccentrics of Western thought that runs from Augustine through Montaigne and Kierkegaard to Nietzche. For all its quirks, it makes for a provocative and rewarding ruminative reading.' Journal of Applied Philosophy

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. A philosophy that is not a philosophy; 2. Contrary states; 3. ' … you hear the grating roar …'; 4. The energy for war; 5. The division of the soul; 6. 'Wandering between two worlds …'; 7. Kant's aesthetic ideas; 8. And his rational ones; 9. Arnold's recast religion; 10. Theism, non-theism and Haldane's fork; 11. Erotic reformations; 12. A language of grasping and non-grasping; 13. '… sinne/like clouds ecclips'd my mind'; 14. Concentration, continence and arousal; 15. Uneasily, he retraces his steps …