David E. Cooper

Senses of Mystery

Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering an extensive range of topics, from Daoism to Debussy, Cooper does a great job of conveying some deep and difficult philosophical ideas about the meaning of life in an engaging manner - and of showing, moreover, how those ideas bear upon the practical question of how we should live our lives. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 131g
• ISBN-13: 9781138078734
• ISBN-10: 1138078735
• Artikelnr.: 48707210

Autorenporträt

David E. Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He has been a Visiting Professor at universities in several countries, including the USA and Sri Lanka. His many books include The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility and Mystery, A Philosophy of Gardens and Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. In a Garden
2. The Truth of Mystery
Ineffability
The Scientific Image
The World as Fiction?
The World as Gift
3. Religion, Nature and Mystery
Religion, Faith and Mystery
'Nothing Special'
Senses of Mystery
Nature and Culture
4. Animals
Animal Worlds
The Opacity of Animals
Animals, Mystery and World
Animals and 'The Open'
5. Music
Music and Experience
Music and Nature
Music, Culture, Environment
Music and the Mystery of Emergence
6. Walking
Meditation on the Move
Body, Mind and Involvement
Communion and Holism
Walking and Senses of Mystery
7. Gardening
The Way of the Garden
Gardens and Meaning
'In the Head' and 'In the Hands'
Garden, 'Gift', Mystery
8. Living with Mystery
Ethics
Removing Obstacles
Humility and Compassion
Emulation
9. In a Garden Again
Index