Inwardness and the Moral Life
Author | : David M. Wisdo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David M. Wisdo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David M. Wisdo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eric Wolf Fried |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9042017961 |
This book reminds us that "in inwardness I am in myself. " It defines our experience in terms of subjectivity, private self-awareness, and complex relationships between interiority and outwardness. The book shows that our inwardness need not confine us to narcissistic self-absorption, but may expand our capacity for richer, more sympathetic relations with others.
Author | : Eric Wolf Fried |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Character |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn |
Publisher | : University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0268108919 |
Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life. The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledged crisis for individuals and communities while current modes of making sense of our lives prove inadequate. Yet, in this time of alienation and spiritual longing, we can glimpse signs of a renewed interest in ancient approaches to the art of living. In this ambitious and timely book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn engages both general readers and scholars on the topic of well-being. She examines the reappearance of ancient philosophical thought in contemporary American culture, probing whether new stirrings of Gnosticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Platonism present a true alternative to our current therapeutic culture of self-help and consumerism, which elevates the self’s needs and desires yet fails to deliver on its promises of happiness and healing. Do the ancient philosophies represent a counter-tradition to today’s culture, auguring a new cultural vibrancy, or do they merely solidify a modern way of life that has little use for inwardness—the cultivation of an inner life—stemming from those older traditions? Tracing the contours of this cultural resurgence and exploring a range of sources, from scholarship to self-help manuals, films, and other artifacts of popular culture, this book sees the different schools as organically interrelated and asks whether, taken together, they can point us in important new directions. Ars Vitae sounds a clarion call to take back philosophy as part of our everyday lives. It proposes a way to do so, sifting through the ruins of long-forgotten and recent history alike for any shards helpful in piecing together the coherence of a moral framework that allows us ways to move forward toward the life we want and need.
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1992-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674257049 |
In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has led—it seems to many—to mere subjectivism at the mildest and to sheer nihilism at the worst. Many critics believe that the modern order has no moral backbone and has proved corrosive to all that might foster human good. Taylor rejects this view. He argues that, properly understood, our modern notion of the self provides a framework that more than compensates for the abandonment of substantive notions of rationality. The major insight of Sources of the Self is that modern subjectivity, in all its epistemological, aesthetic, and political ramifications, has its roots in ideas of human good. After first arguing that contemporary philosophers have ignored how self and good connect, the author defines the modern identity by describing its genesis. His effort to uncover and map our moral sources leads to novel interpretations of most of the figures and movements in the modern tradition. Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach the good. At the heart of this definition he finds what he calls the affirmation of ordinary life, a value which has decisively if not completely replaced an older conception of reason as connected to a hierarchy based on birth and wealth. In telling the story of a revolution whose proponents have been Augustine, Montaigne, Luther, and a host of others, Taylor’s goal is in part to make sure we do not lose sight of their goal and endanger all that has been achieved. Sources of the Self provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.
Author | : John D. Caputo |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783780649 |
Soren Kierkegaard is one of the prophets of the contemporary age, a man whose acute observations on life in nineteenth-century Copenhagen might have been written yesterday, whose work anticipated fundamental developments in psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and the critique of mass culture by over a century. John Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that numbers Martin Heidegger and Karl Barth among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming 'deed' and his haunting account of the 'single individual' seemed to have been written with us especially in mind. Extracts include Kierkegaard's classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the jolting theory that truth is subjectivity and his ground-breaking analysis of the concept of anxiety.
Author | : Allen W. Wood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1990-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521377829 |
Hegel's philosophy of society, politics and history is exposed to ethical debate on human rights, the justification of legal punishment, criteria of moral responsibility, and authority of individual conscience.
Author | : Yaakov Elman |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780881255997 |
Author | : Gavin Flood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199684561 |
Explores the metaphor of inwardness and the idea of truth within, along with the methods developed in three religions to attain it, such as prayer and meditation.