Overcoming our evil : human nature and spiritual exercises in Xunzi and Augustine / Aaron Stalnaker.

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Stalnaker, Aaron [author.]

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9781435627482
1435627482

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Overcoming our evil.DDC classification:

205 22

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BJ1401 .S82 2006eb

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11.51
11.86

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Contents:

Introduction -- Source and citation formats -- Comparative ethics -- Contexts for interpretation -- Ugly impulses and a muddy heart -- Broken images of the divine -- Comparing human "natures" -- Artifice is the way -- Crucifying and resurrecting the mind -- Reformations: spiritual exercises in comparative perspective -- Understanding and neighborliness.

Summary: Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called ""spiritual exercises."" These practices engage thought, imagination, and sensibility, and have a significant ethical component, yet aim for a broader transformation of the whole personality. Going beyond recent philosophical and historical work that has focused on ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, Stalnaker broadens ethical inquiry into spiritual exercises.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-319) and index.

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Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called ""spiritual exercises."" These practices engage thought, imagination, and sensibility, and have a significant ethical component, yet aim for a broader transformation of the whole personality. Going beyond recent philosophical and historical work that has focused on ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, Stalnaker broadens ethical inquiry into spiritual exercises.

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