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Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine /
Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called ""spiritual exercises."" These practi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Moral traditions series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called ""spiritual exercises."" These practices engage thought, imagination, and sensibility, and have a significant ethical component, yet aim for a broader transformation of the whole personality. Going beyond recent philosophical and historical work that has focused on ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, Stalnaker broadens ethical inquiry into spiritual exercises |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 330 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435627482 1435627482 9781589013841 1589013840 |