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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 practices engage t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stalnaker, Aaron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington : Georgetown University Press, 2010.
Series:Moral Traditions.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Source and Citation Formats; Chapter One: Comparative Ethics; Chapter Two: Contexts for Interpretation; Chapter Three: Ugly Impulses and a Muddy Heart; Chapter Four: Broken Images of the Divine; Chapter Five: Comparing Human "Natures"; Chapter Six: Artifice Is the Way; Chapter Seven: Crucifying and Resurrecting the Mind; Chapter Eight: Reformations: Spiritual Exercises in Comparative Perspective; Chapter Nine: Understanding and Neighborliness; References; Index.