Richard Hazzlewood

The Power of the Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the faculty of the imagination and discusses its power and importance. Suggests that the imagination should have a central role in our life, considering a traditional balance between the active and contemplative lives. Discusses the philosopher David Hume and other empiricists who downplayed the imagination. Also looks at today's hectic and chaotic world which rarely allows time for a proper development of the imagination. The imagination is seen as cutting through the 'hierarchy of needs', that infinite ascent into superfluity which characterises the essential dissatisfaction of modern life. Looks at two forms of the imaginative vision, an earlier spiritual form and a later Romantic form. Concludes that this faculty is an essential element in the psyche which we should allow to develop.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Hazzlewood
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463282410
• Artikelnr.: 72395909

Autorenporträt

Quiet academic type from North West England. BA English, MA Renaissance Literature. I studied in exile by the rivers of Babylon for 3 years, aka Cambridge. And I descended into Egypt, aka PricewaterhouseCoopers. Now I live in a spiritual hermitage where I study literature, philosophy and religion. I am a Roman Catholic convert, and particularly find spiritual fulfilment in the Divine Mercy Chaplet and the Liturgy of the Hours. Beer, wine, and spirits are my three branches of government. I am currently especially interested in French and Italian red. Philosophy is really the driving force of my life, and I always seek to question and open up new vistas on being. From Classical ethics to Medieval metaphysics to existentialism, I like to run the gamut of philosophical thought. Poetry is an abiding passion of mine. Finally, a list of books I hold very close to my heart: Augustine, 'Confessions'; Bonaventure, 'Journey of the Mind to God'; Dante, 'The Divine Comedy'; Plato, 'Phaedrus'; Cervantes, 'Don Quixote'; 'The Bhagavad Gita', & of course, 'The Bible'.