Samuel Kimbriel

Friendship as Sacred Knowing

Overcoming Isolation

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Produktbeschreibung

Samuel Kimbriel advocates a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit--"the befriending of wisdom"--in which knowledge is taken to be a kind of communion with God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780199363988
• ISBN-10: 0199363986
• Artikelnr.: 40030025

Autorenporträt

Samuel Kimbriel is a teaching fellow in philosophical theology at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on questions of metaphysical realism, with a particular interest in perception and intellection. He holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I - Friendship and disengagement
1: Friendship and isolation
2: Friendship, virtue and contemplation
Part II - Friendship and enquiry: Beyond disengagement
3: Sacred knowing and indwelling love
4: The porous enquirer
5: The veiled path: Enquiry, agency and desire
6: Human finitude and the paradox of enquiry
7: Friendship and deification
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary texts
Secondary texts
Index