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Alan Watts--in the academy : essays and lectures /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watts, Alan, 1915-1973 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Columbus, Peter J. (Editor ), Rice, Donadrian L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York, [2017]
Colección:SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Illustrations; Editors' Preface; Introduction: Alan Watts and the Academic Enterprise; Pomp and Circumstance; Aims and Scope: Validity, Reliability, Necessity; The Whole and Its Parts; Part 1: Language and Mysticism; Alan Watts Reconsidered; References; Part One: Language and Mysticism; Chapter One On the Meaning and Relation of Absolute and Relative (1950); Do You Ever Wonder?; Our Incomplete Map of Life; Beyond Time and Space; Reference; Chapter Two The Negative Way (1951); Chapter Three The Language of Metaphysical Experience: The Sense of Non-Sense (1953); Notes.
  • NoteChapter Ten Zen and Politics (1962); Note; References; Chapter Eleven Prefatory Essay to Suzuki's Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (1963); Note; References; Part Three: Christianity; Chapter Twelve Theologia Mystica: Being the Treatise of Saint Dionysius Pseudo-Areopagite on Mystical Theology, Together with the First and Fifth Epistles (1944); Introduction; On Mystical Theology: The Treatise of St. Dionysius to Timothy; I. Of the Divine Darkness.; II. In what manner we must needs be united with God, and of the praise of the Maker of all things, who is above all.
  • III. What may be affirmed of Divine Truth, and what denied. IV. That He partakes not of sensible things who is preeminently their Maker.; V. That He partakes not of intelligible things who is preeminently their Maker.; From the Epistles; Epistle I, To Gaius Therapeutes; Epistle V, To Dorotheus Liturgus; Notes; References; Chapter Thirteen The Case for God (1946); The Evidence of the Universe and Man; The Five Proofs of St. Thomas; The Nature of God; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Fourteen The Meaning of Priesthood (1946); Notes; Chapter Fifteen The Christian Doctrine of Marriage (1946); Note.
  • Part Four: Comparative ReligionChapter Sixteen Worship in Sacrament and Silence (1964/1971); Chapter Seventeen Western Mythology: Its Dissolution and Transformation (1970); Chapter Eighteen The Future of Religion (1970); The Hindu Conception of God; The Hebrew-christian Morality; New Concepts of Religion; Speculations on "religion" of the Future; Notes; References; Chapter Nineteen Unity in Contemplation (1974); Note; Reference; Part Five: Psychedelics; Chapter Twenty The Individual as Man/World (1963); References; Chapter Twenty-One A Psychedelic Experience: Fact or Fantasy? (1964).