Transformations of mind : philosophy as spiritual practice /
The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of carto...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 ...