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Islamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present

Autor: Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Número de Páginas: 392

A comprehensive overview of the Islamic philosophical tradition. AIslamic Philosophy from Its Origin to the Present offers a comprehensive overview of Islamic philosophy from the ninth century to the present day. As Seyyed Hossein Nasr attests, within this tradition, philosophizing is done in a world in which prophecy is the central reality of life—a reality related not only to the realms of action and ethics but also to the realm of knowledge. Comparisons with Jewish and Christian philosophies highlight the relation between reason and revelation, that is, philosophy and religion. Nasr presents Islamic philosophy in relation to the Islamic tradition as a whole, but always treats this philosophy as philosophy, not simply as intellectual history. In addition to chapters dealing with the general historical development of Islamic philosophy, several chapters are devoted to later and mostly unknown philosophers. The work also pays particular attention to the Persian tradition. Nasr stresses that the Islamic tradition is a living tradition with significance for the contemporary Islamic world and its relationship with the West. In providing this seminal introduction to a tradition...

To Become a God

Autor: Michael J. Puett

Número de Páginas: 396

Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposite pole saw the two realms as related and claimed that humans could achieve divinity and thus control the cosmos. This wide-ranging book reconstructs this debate and places within their contemporary contexts the rival claims concerning the nature of the cosmos and the spirits, the proper demarcation between the human and the divine realms, and the types of power that humans and spirits can exercise. It is often claimed that the worldview of early China was unproblematically monistic and that hence China had avoided the tensions between gods and humans found in the West. By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions ...

The Hidden Spirituality of Men

Autor: Matthew Fox

Número de Páginas: 372

It is no secret that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world’s critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. Popular religion forces the punitive imagery of fundamentalism on us, pushing most men away from their natural yearning for spirituality and toward intolerance and domination. Meanwhile, many men, particularly young men, are looking for images of healthy masculinity to emulate and finding nothing. To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Grandfatherly Heart to the Spiritual Warrior. He explores archetypes of sacred marriage, showing how partnership becomes the ultimate expression of healthy masculinity. By stirring our natural yearning for healthy spirituality, Fox argues, these timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue...

Wallace Stevens and Pre-Socratic Philosophy

Autor: Daniel Tompsett

Número de Páginas: 284

This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens’ poetry attempts to ‘play’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens’ poems, Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of ...

From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme

Autor: Roelof Van Den Broeck , Cis Van Heertum

Número de Páginas: 440

14 studies dealing with ancient, medieval and early modern forms of Gnosis, their myths, rites, ideas and expectations, with strong emphasis on Hermetic traditions. Contributions by R. van den Broek, C. Gilly, P. Kingsley, J.-P. Mahe, and G. Quispel.

Posséder Liberty (français)

Autor: Nicole Cypher

Número de Páginas: 259

Profitez du troisième livre de cette palpitante trilogie de romance captive de l'auteure de dark romance Nicole Cypher… Revendiquée. Voilà ce qu'a été Liberty pour moi depuis qu'elle est entrée dans ma vie. D'abord par un autre homme. Puis par moi-même. J'ai attendu des années pour l'avoir, passé mes nuits à la désirer ardemment, fait de mon mieux pour la mettre en cage, et rien de tout cela ne s'est déroulé comme je l'avais prévu. Pour autant que je puisse en juger, il ne me reste plus qu'une chose à faire... Lâcher prise et espérer qu'elle me revendique aussi. Une note de Nicole : Parfait pour les fans de Natasha Knight, Nicole Fox et Sophie Lark, Claiming Liberty est le dernier livre de la trilogie de dark romance La Tromperie Libératrice et est PLEIN de suspense. Préparez-vous pour un grand final!

El arte de ser

Autor: Mónica Cavallé

Número de Páginas: 481

Este libro invita a iniciarse, de forma práctica, en el viaje del autoconocimiento filosófico y en el arte por excelencia: el de llegar a ser lo que realmente somos. Con este fin, retoma y desarrolla intuiciones centrales de las principales tradiciones sapienciales revelando su potencial transformador y su capacidad para iluminar nuestra vida cotidiana. Es urgente actualizar esas enseñanzas eternas, pues ¿de qué nos sirven los conocimientos especializados y el logro de todo aquello que nuestra sociedad considera símbolos de realización y de éxito si carecemos de paz interior; si desconocemos cuál es el sentido de nuestra existencia y qué anhela lo mejor de nosotros si vivimos fustigados por nuestros propios pensamientos; si nos vemos arrastrados por emociones e impulsos que nos conducen a donde no queremos ir; si no sabemos amar; si nos acosan sentimientos crónicos de falta de significado, aislamiento, ansiedad o soledad; si no sabemos aquietarnos y hallar contento, sustento e inspiración en esa quietud; si no somos nuestro mejor amigo; si tememos vivir y tememos morir; si hemos alcanzado una satisfacción mediocre pero carente de plenitud real...?

Understanding Kingsley Amis

Autor: Merritt Moseley

Número de Páginas: 212

The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism

Autor: Glenn Alexander Magee

Número de Páginas: 820

Mysticism and esotericism are two intimately related strands of the Western tradition. Despite their close connections, however, scholars tend to treat them separately. Whereas the study of Western mysticism enjoys a long and established history, Western esotericism is a young field. The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism examines both of these traditions together. The volume demonstrates that the roots of esotericism almost always lead back to mystical traditions, while the work of mystics was bound up with esoteric or occult preoccupations. It also shows why mysticism and esotericism must be examined together if either is to be understood fully. Including contributions by leading scholars, this volume features essays on such topics as alchemy, astrology, magic, Neoplatonism, Kabbalism, Renaissance Hermetism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, numerology, Christian theosophy, spiritualism, and much more. This Handbook serves as both a capstone of contemporary scholarship and a cornerstone of future research.

Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Autor: Vanessa Lemm

Número de Páginas: 411

“This exciting collection of essays challenges existing interpretations of several key moments of Nietzsche’s philosophy.” —Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia Throughout his writing career, Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of...