Philosophy and the Spiritual Life (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Harrison, Victoria S.; McNabb, Tyler Dalton

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book breaks new ground for the philosophy of religion by showcasing work that engages with the lived reality of the spiritual life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000916720
• Artikelnr.: 68217312

Autorenporträt

Victoria S. Harrison is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China. Until 2016, she was Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she directed the Forum for Philosophy and Religion. Tyler Dalton McNabb is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis University, Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Preface

1 The spiritual life and philosophy: a historical and contemporary orientation

Rhett Gayle, Victoria S. Harrison, and Tyler Dalton McNabb

PART I Spiritual practice and philosophical understanding

2 Beginning with the spiritual life



Mark R. Wynn



3 Engagement, immersion, and enactment: the role of spiritual practice in religious belief



John Cottingham



4 Philosophy as a spiritual exercise: some ethical and aesthetic reflections



Douglas Hedley



PART II Philosophical reflections on living a spiritual life

5 The unexamined life is not worth living: examination of conscience and philosophy as a way of life



Daniel D. de Haan



6 Blinding darkness: or, whose being is this, anyway?



Gwen Griffith-Dickson



7 A pluralist account of spiritual exemplarity



Ian James Kidd



8 Self-transformation and spiritual exemplars



Victoria S. Harrison and Rhett Gayle



PART III Philosophical problems concerning the spiritual life

9 The problem of the self-ascription of sainthood



Gorazd Andrejc



10 Boredom and divine infinity



Jonathan Hill



11 Desire and the spiritual life



Fiona Ellis