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Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

By: Michael Scott Alexander

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Making Peace with the Universe

Personal Crisis and Spiritual Healing

By: Michael Scott Alexander

The world’s great religious and philosophical traditions often include poignant testimonies of spiritual turmoil and healing. Following episodes of harrowing personal crisis, including addictions, periods of anxiety and panic, and reminders of mortality, these accounts then also describe pathways to consolation and resolution. In Making Peace with the Universe, Michael Scott Alexander reads diverse classic religious accounts as masterpieces of therapeutic insight. In the company of William James, Socrates, Muslim legal scholar turned mystic Hamid al-Ghazali, Chinggis Khan as described by the Daoist monk Qui Chuji, and jazz musician and Catholic convert Mary Lou Williams, Alexander traces the steps from existential crisis to psychological health. He recasts spiritual confessions as case histories of therapy, showing how they remain radical and deeply meaningful even in an age of scientific psychology. They record the therapeutic affect of spiritual experience, testifying to the achievement of psychological well-being through the cultivation of an edifying spiritual mood. Mixing scholarly learning with episodes from his own skeptical quest, Alexander demonstrates how these accounts of private terror and personal triumph offer a model of therapy through spiritual adventure. An interdisciplinary consideration of the shared terrain of religion and psychology, Making Peace with the Universe offers an innovative view of what spiritual traditions can teach us about finding meaning in the modern world.

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Columbia University Press

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023155270X

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Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

A Philological Study

By: Michael A. Rapoport

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Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

A Philological Study

By: Michael A. Rapoport

In Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders, Michael A. Rapoport provides a philological study of Ibn Sīnā’s (d. 1037) scientific explanations for phenomena related to the human soul in his most challenging and influential philosophical summa.

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BRILL

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9004540628

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Philosophising the Occult

Avicennan Psychology and 'The Hidden Secret' of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

By: Michael-Sebastian Noble

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Philosophising the Occult

Avicennan Psychology and 'The Hidden Secret' of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī

By: Michael-Sebastian Noble

Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to theorize on astral magic – or was there a deeper purpose? One of his earliest works was The Hidden Secret (‘al-Sirr al-Maktūm’), a magisterial study of the ‘craft’ which harnessed spiritual discipline and natural philosophy to establish noetic connection with the celestial souls to work wonders here on earth. The initiate’s preceptor is a personal celestial spirit, ‘the perfect nature’ which represents the ontological origin of his soul. This volume will be the first study of The Hidden Secret and its theory of astral magic, which synthesized the naturalistic account of prophethood constructed by Avicenna (d.1037), with the perfect nature doctrine as conceived by Abū’l-Barakāt (d.1165). Shedding light on one of the most complex thinkers of the post-Avicennan period, it will show how al-Rāzī’s early theorizing on the craft contributed to his formulation of prophethood with which his career culminated. Representing the nexus between philosophy, theology and magic, it will be of interest to all those interested in Islamic intellectual history and occultism.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110644614

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The Philosopher's Plant

An Intellectual Herbarium

By: Michael Marder

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The Philosopher's Plant

An Intellectual Herbarium

By: Michael Marder

Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants. In this book, Michael Marder illuminates the elaborate vegetal centerpieces and hidden kernels that have powered theoretical discourse for centuries. Choosing twelve botanical specimens that correspond to twelve significant philosophers, he recasts the development of philosophy through the evolution of human and plant relations. A philosophical history for the postmetaphysical age, The PhilosopherÕs Plant reclaims the organic heritage of human thought. With the help of vegetal images, examples, and metaphors, the book clears a path through philosophyÕs tangled roots and dense undergrowth, opening up the discipline to all readers.

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Columbia University Press

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0231169035

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9780231169035

The Cambridge History of Atheism

By: Michael Ruse

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The Cambridge History of Atheism

By: Michael Ruse

The two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism offers an authoritative and up to date account of a subject of contemporary interest. Comprised of sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this History is comprehensive in scope. The essays are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and classics. Offering a global overview of the subject, from antiquity to the present, the volumes examine the phenomenon of unbelief in the context of Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jewish societies. They explore atheism and the early modern Scientific Revolution, as well as the development of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and its continuing implications. The History also includes general survey essays on the impact of scepticism, agnosticism and atheism, as well as contemporary assessments of thinking. Providing essential information on the nature and history of atheism, The Cambridge History of Atheism will be indispensable for both scholarship and teaching, at all levels.

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1009040219

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9781009040211

Probing in Islamic Philosophy

Studies in the Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, and Other Major Muslim Thinkers

By: Michael E. Marmura

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Probing in Islamic Philosophy

Studies in the Philosophies of Ibn Sina, al-Ghazali, and Other Major Muslim Thinkers

By: Michael E. Marmura

Analyzes major Muslim philosophers.

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Global Academic Publishing

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1586842544

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The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza

By: Michael Della Rocca

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The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza

By: Michael Della Rocca

Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased appreciation of Spinoza's role as an unorthodox, pivotal figure - indeed, perhaps the pivotal figure - in the development of Enlightenment thinking. Spinoza's penetrating articulation of his extreme rationalism makes him a demanding philosopher who offers deep and prescient challenges to all subsequent, inevitably less radical approaches to philosophy. While the twenty-six essays in this volume - by many of the world's leading Spinoza specialists - grapple directly with Spinoza's most important arguments, these essays also seek to identify and explain Spinoza's debts to previous philosophy, his influence on later philosophers, and his significance for contemporary philosophy and for us.

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Oxford University Press

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019971469X

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Ideography and Chinese Language Theory

A History

By: Timothy Michael O’Neill

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Ideography and Chinese Language Theory

A History

By: Timothy Michael O’Neill

This book is a much-needed scholarly intervention and postcolonial corrective that examines why and when and how misunderstandings of Chinese writing came about and showcases the long history of Chinese theories of language. 'Ideography' as such assumes extra-linguistic, trans-historical, universal 'ideas' which are an outgrowth of Platonism and thus unique to European history. Classical Chinese discourse assumes that language (and writing) is an arbitrary artifact invented by sages for specific reasons at specific times in history. Language by this definition is an ever-changing technology amenable to historical manipulation; language is not the House of Being, but rather a historically embedded social construct that encodes quotidian human intentions and nothing more. These are incommensurate epistemes, each with its own cultural milieu and historical context. By comparing these two traditions, this study historicizes and decolonializes popular notions about Chinese characters, exposing the Eurocentrism inherent in all theories of ideography. Ideography and Chinese Language Theory will be of significant interest to historians, sinologists, theorists, and scholars in other branches of the humanities.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311045923X

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Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas

Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences

By: Edmund Michael Lazzari

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Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas

Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences

By: Edmund Michael Lazzari

In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology–science dialogue. In the first substantive entry of interreligious dialogue on the topic, this book provides fresh, contemporary accounts of Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas on miracles and science, challenges contemporary noninterventionist presuppositions, and explores rich, untapped avenues in the theology, metaphysics, and epistemology of miracles and laws of science. Through an exploration of Nursi’s Ash’arite, Quranic interpretation of the sciences, and St. Thomas’s neglected doctrine of obediential potency, this volume marshals powerful tools from the world’s two largest religions to elucidate the foundations of God’s interaction with creatures. As well as contributing to the contemporary debate, this volume provides Muslim and Christian readers alike substantive intellectual frameworks in which to think about the sciences from the heart of their own intellectual traditions, while at the same time giving them as alternatives to mainstream contemporary approaches for scientists and other readers engaged in theology–science dialogue.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040258069

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Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics

Difference and Necessity

By: Michael J.Ardoline

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Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics

Difference and Necessity

By: Michael J.Ardoline

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics provides new solutions to the central problems of the philosophy of mathematics by reconstructing Deleuze’s metaphysics. It does so through direct engagement with analytic and continental philosophy, along with the formal and natural sciences. These new Deleuzian solutions reject equally other-worldly accounts of mathematics, such as Platonism, and accounts which treat mathematics as a useful fiction or an empty formalist game. Instead, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics argues that mathematical truth is grounded in the necessity of difference itself. Since difference is entirely this-worldly, the truth of mathematics does not require us to posit the reality of transcendent entities or possible worlds. Doing so not only provides a new metaphysics of mathematics; it also explains the usefulness of mathematics for science and why mathematical truth appear to have such otherworldly properties in the first place.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1399536362

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World Religions

By: Michael O'Neal,J. Sydney Jones,Neil Schlager,Jayne Weisblatt

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World Religions

By: Michael O'Neal,J. Sydney Jones,Neil Schlager,Jayne Weisblatt

Presents a guide to the major religions of the world.

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UXL

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1414402317

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Mind Unmasked

A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness

By: Michael A. Weinstein,Timothy M. Yetman

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Mind Unmasked

A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness

By: Michael A. Weinstein,Timothy M. Yetman

The human mind has proven uniquely capable of unraveling untold mysteries, and yet, the mind is fundamentally challenged when it turns back on itself to ask what it itself is. How do we conceive of mind in this postmodern world; how can we use philosophical anthropology to understand mind and its functions? While philosophers and social scientists have made important contributions to our understanding of mind, existing theories are insufficient for penetrating the complexities of mind in the twenty-first century. Mind Unmasked: A Political Phenomenology of Consciousness draws on twentieth-century philosophies of consciousness to explain the phenomenon of mind in the broadest sense of the word. Michael A. Weinstein and Timothy M. Yetman develop a thought provoking discourse that moves beyond the nature of the human experience of mind at both the individual and interpersonal levels and present a meditation on life in the contemporary world of global mass-mediated human culture.

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1351662902

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Book's by Michael E. Marmura

Making Peace with the Universe

Making Peace with the Universe

Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders

Philosophising the Occult

Philosophising the Occult

The Philosopher's Plant

The Philosopher's Plant

The Cambridge History of Atheism

The Cambridge History of Atheism

Probing in Islamic Philosophy

Probing in Islamic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza

The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza

Ideography and Chinese Language Theory

Ideography and Chinese Language Theory

Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas

Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics

Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics

World Religions

World Religions

Mind Unmasked

Mind Unmasked

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