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 practices engage t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stalnaker, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Colección:Moral Traditions.
Temas:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Xunzi, > 340 B.C.-245 B.C.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
Xunzi, > 340 B.C.-245 B.C
Good and evil.
Conduct of life.
Ethics.
Ethics
Morale pratique.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
RELIGION > Eastern.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 e.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (353 pages)
ISBN:9781589013841
1589013840

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