Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion

Author:   Michael McGhee (University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   200
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
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Author:   Michael McGhee (University of Liverpool)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781316613757


ISBN 10:   1316613755
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   08 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Acknowledgements; A Shakespearean Prologue: The Voice of Cordelian Ethics; 1. Introduction; 2. 'A Spiritually Enlightened Individual; 3. The Resources of a Much Earlier Phase of the Tradition'; 4. The Distractions of Baruch Spinoza; 5. Immanuel Kant: 'To Regard as Petty what we are Otherwise Anxious About'; 6. Wittgenstein's Cool Temple; 7. Rilke, Shakespeare… and a Little Freud; 8. Concealment and Revelation; 9. Mindfulness and the Form of a Philosophical Life; 10. Epictetus: 'The Beginning of Philosophy' …; 11. Ted Hughes: Evaporation, Translation, Translocation; 12. Philosophy as an Inventive Convergence of Methods; 13. Richard Norman: 'The Truths it Contains are Human Truths'; 14. Perspectives: Marmalade Stains on the Breakfast Table; 15. David Hume: Wanting the Natural Sentiments of Humanity; 16. 'What is the Difference between Love and God's Love?'; 17. 'Peace, Wild Wooddove, Shy Wings Shut'; 18. 'Only a Little Snivelling Half-Wit Can Maintain That'; 19. 'The World is Too Much With Us'; 20. Of Self and Self, of Atman and Anatman; 21. 'I am Myself Alone'; 22. The Five Heaps or Skandhas; 23.'We Claim that There is a Person, but we do not say that he is an Entity'; 24. Birds, Frogs and Tintern Abbey; 25. Human Resources and Hubris; References; Index.

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Michael McGhee is Honorary Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. A British philosopher who was educated at a Roman Catholic seminary, he later became a practising Buddhist. He is the author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2000), editor and co-editor of various collections on philosophy and spirituality, and a founding editor of Contemporary Buddhism.

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