Transformations of Mind
Philosophy as Spiritual Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 April 2000
- ISBN 9780521771696
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 236x157x21 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book deals with issues at the intersection of philosophy, theology, religious studies and Buddhist studies.
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The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book draws on both the Greek and Buddhist traditions, recognising that it is time for Western thinkers to acknowledge and respond to an intercultural canon. It aims to integrate ethics and a non-theistic philosophy of religion through the medium of aesthetics, mapping Buddhist 'mindfulness' and the Greek virtues and vices of temperance and licentiousness, continence and incontinence, onto an account of the development of moral sentiments and their relation to practical judgement in the context of oppressive political and social realities.
'Michael McGhee has a distinctive and original voice. His philosophy of religion is personal and lucid, respectful of argument but not narrowly analytical; he pays acute attention to the specific forms that inwardness and spirituality may have.' Onora O'Neill
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. A philosophy that is not a philosophy; 2. Contrary states; 3. ' ... you hear the grating roar ...'; 4. The energy for war; 5. The division of the soul; 6. 'Wandering between two worlds ...'; 7. Kant's aesthetic ideas; 8. And his rational ones; 9. Arnold's recast religion; 10. Theism, non-theism and Haldane's fork; 11. Erotic reformations; 12. A language of grasping and non-grasping; 13. '... sinne/like clouds ecclips'd my mind'; 14. Concentration, continence and arousal; 15. Uneasily, he retraces his steps ...
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