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Mystical consciousness : Western perspectives and dialogue with Japanese thinkers /

"This book offers a philosophical account of ordinary consciousness as a step toward understanding mystical consciousness. Presupposing a living interaction between meditation and thinking, the work draws on Western and Japanese thinkers to develop a philosophy of religion that is friendly to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roy, Louis, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Western philosophies of consciousness. Major contributions. Brentano
  • Husserl
  • Sartre
  • Lonergan
  • Complementary contributions. From intentionality to consciousness : Searle
  • Degrees of consciousness : Crosby
  • Further clarifications : Helminiak
  • Affective side : Morelli
  • Accounts of mystical consciousness. Forman on pure consciousness events
  • Realm of transcendence according to Lonergan
  • Moore on the "how" of consciousness
  • Price on bare consciousness
  • Granfield on the mystical difference
  • Three classics. Plotinus : consciousness beyond consciousness. Grand worldview
  • Intellect's share in the good
  • Ordinary consciousness
  • What happens beyond consciousness?
  • No blackout and yet no self-consciousness
  • Ecstasy, or enstasy?
  • Eckhart : when consciousness becomes divine consciousness. Emptiness of the human intellect
  • No awareness
  • Nothingness
  • Detached love without a why
  • Is the soul equated with God?
  • Soul's breakthrough to the Godhead
  • Schleiermacher : consciousness as feeling. Feeling
  • Prereflective and reflective consciousness
  • Absolute dependence
  • Three kinds of consciousness
  • Dialogue with Zen philosophy. Western views of the self. Arguing against the self
  • Arguing for the self
  • Transcending the self
  • Japanese views of the self. Suzuki
  • Nishitani
  • Western view of nothingness. Plotinus and Eckhart
  • Hedger
  • Nishitani as interpreter of Plotinus, Eckhart, and Heidegger
  • Japanese views of nothingness. Nishitani's approach to nihilism
  • Nishitani's characterization of "absolute nothingness"
  • Hisamatsu's characterization of "oriental nothingness."