Name: From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality
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Author: Ernest Rubinstein
ISBN: 9781611477245

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Author

Ernest Rubinstein

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

302

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781611477245

Synopsis "From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality"

From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. Its aim is to revive for the modern reader the spiritual import of philosophy as an area of inquiry and study. Spirituality is understood as a lived orientation towards the sacred. The sacred is characterized as the source of all being and human wellbeing. Philosophy is presented as an avenue of approach to the sacred alternative to the western religious traditions. Philosophers treated include Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Emerson, William James, Bertrand Russell, and Simone Weil.