Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stalnaker, Aaron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2006.
Colección:Moral traditions series.
Temas:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Xunzi, > 340 B.C.-245 B.C.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
Augustinus, Aurelius, > 354-430.
Xunzi, > 340-245 v. Chr.
Augustinus, Aurelius.
Xunzi.
Good and evil.
Conduct of life.
Ethics.
Morale pratique.
Morale.
ethics (philosophical concept)
ethics (philosophy)
11.51 early Christianity.
11.86 religions of China.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Ethics.
Conduct of life
Ethics
Good and evil
Philosophische Anthropologie
Lebensführung
Christianity.
Confucianism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Source and citation formats
  • Comparative ethics
  • Contexts for interpretation
  • Ugly impulses and a muddy heart
  • Broken images of the divine
  • Comparing human "natures"
  • Artifice is the way
  • Crucifying and resurrecting the mind
  • Reformations: spiritual exercises in comparative perspective
  • Understanding and neighborliness.

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