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Author | : Solomon Katz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-12-27 |
Genre | : Mental health |
ISBN | : 9780989111270 |
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This book is required reading for everyone who has a mind. The mind is a powerful tool capable of great creativity and invention. But, when used improperly, the mind can also become an instrument of suffering. Beauty as a State of Being shows the reader how to use the mind well, so that peace can reign in the individual life and, by extension, the life of the world. When the mind finds its proper place the heart is revealed and, with the heart, joy. Beauty as a State of Being guides the reader to realms of joy and spiritual illumination, where answers to the great questions of life are also to be found. As the path presented in this book progresses toward the spiritual, the ideas ascend in conceptual and literary beauty, in essays and prose poems that are themselves revelations of the heart.
Author | : Solomon Katz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2013-12-27 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9781499581959 |
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This book is required reading for everyone who has a mind. The mind is a powerful tool capable of great creativity and invention. But, when used improperly, the mind can also become an instrument of suffering. Beauty as a State of Being shows the reader how to use the mind well, so that peace can reign in the individual life and, by extension, the life of the world. When the mind finds its proper place the heart is revealed and, with the heart, joy. Beauty as a State of Being guides the reader to realms of joy and spiritual illumination, where answers to the great questions of life are also to be found. As the path presented in this book progresses toward the spiritual, the ideas ascend in conceptual and literary beauty, in essays and prose poems that are themselves revelations of the heart.
Author | : Elaine Scarry |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2013-03-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400847354 |
Download On Beauty and Being Just Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, author of the landmark The Body in Pain and one of our bravest and most creative thinkers, offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty.
Author | : Jonathan King |
Publisher | : Lexham Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1683590597 |
Download The Beauty of the Lord Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.
Author | : Roger Scruton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199229759 |
Download Beauty: A Very Short Introduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.
Author | : Leonard Koren |
Publisher | : Imperfect Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0981484603 |
Download Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Beskrivelse: Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional.
Author | : Naomi Wolf |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 006196994X |
Download The Beauty Myth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
Author | : Ellen Sinkman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0765708426 |
Download The Psychology of Beauty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book addresses the vital importance of beauty, its sources, and manifestations in everyone's lives-including psychotherapy patients. During psychotherapy, patients manifest or defend against the desire to be beautiful. This book considers definitions of beauty, gender ide...
Author | : Tanaz Bhathena |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House India Private Limited |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9353054796 |
Download The Beauty of the Moment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Susan is the new girl-she's sharp and driven, and strives to meet her parents' expectations of excellence. Malcolm is the bad boy-he started raising hell at age fifteen, after his mom died of cancer, and has had a reputation ever since. Susan's parents are on the verge of divorce. Malcolm's dad is a known adulterer. Susan hasn't told anyone, but she wants to be an artist. Malcolm doesn't know what he wants-until he meets her. Love is messy and families are messier, but in spite of their burdens, Susan and Malcolm fall for each other. The ways they drift apart and come back together are the picture of being true to oneself.
Author | : Kazuyo Murata |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-04-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438462808 |
Download Beauty in Sufism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
According to Muhammad, "God is beautiful and He loves beauty." Yet, Islam is rarely associated with beauty, and today, a politicized Islam dominates many perceptions. This work tells a forgotten story of beauty in Islam through the writings of celebrated but little-studied Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī (1128–1209). Rūzbihān argued that the pursuit of beauty in the world and in oneself was the goal of Muslim life. One should become beautiful in imitation of God and reclaim the innate human nature created in God's beautiful image. Rūzbihān's theory of beauty is little known, largely because of his convoluted style and eccentric terminology in both Persian and Arabic. In this book, Kazuyo Murata revives Rūzbihān's ideas for modern readers. She provides an overview of Muslim discourse on beauty before Rūzbihān's time; an analysis of key terms related to beauty in the Qur'ān, Ḥadīth, and in Rūzbihān's writings; a reconstruction of Rūzbihān's understanding of divine, cosmic, and human beauty; and a discussion of what he regards as the pinnacle of beauty in creation, the prophets, especially Adam, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and Muhammad.