Overcoming Our Evil - Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Stalnaker is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He was awarded his PhD in Religious Studies from Brown University in 2001. From July 1992 through June 1994 he worked with Volunteers in Asia in the Peoples Republic of China! where he taught English at a technical college in Manchuria. Klappentext Focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called 'spiritual exercises'. This book examines and compares the thought and practice of the early Christian Augustine of Hippo! and the early Confucian Xunzi. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called 'spiritual exercises'. This book examines and compares the thought and practice of the early Christian Augustine of Hippo! and the early Confucian Xunzi. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Source and Citation Formats 1. Comparative Ethics Comparison in Religious Ethics Conceptual Diversity! not Conceptual Relativism Structural Choices and Productive Comparisons Bridging Religious Worlds Why Xunzi and Augustine? Notes 2. Contexts for Interpretation Xunzi and Augustine Bridge Concepts Notes 3. Ugly Impulses and a Muddy Heart Xunzi on Human Nature Xunzi's Conception of a PersonNotes 4. Broken Images of the Divine Augustine on Human Nature Augustinian PersonhoodNotes 5. Comparing Human "Natures" Revisiting Bridge Concepts Comparative Moral Psychology: Themes for Further Development "Human Nature" in the Context of Formative PracticesNotes 6. Artifice is the WayFollowing the Way Spiritual Exercises Xunzi's Theory of the Stages of Personal FormationNotes 7. Crucifying and Resurrecting the MindFrom Death into Life: The Shape of Augustinian Christianity Preconditions for Effective Practice Spiritual Exercises Augustine's Theory of the Stages of Personal FormationNotes 8. Reformations: Spiritual Exercises in Comparative Perspective Virtue and "the Will" Spiritual Exercises and the Manipulation of Inner and Outer Chastened IntellectualismNotes 9. Understanding and Neighborliness The Varieties of Moral Agency "Spoiling the Egyptians": Holism! Interpretation! and Theft Global NeighborlinessNotes References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Stalnaker, Stalnaker Aaron
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2009
• EAN: 9781589015036
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-503-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Moral Traditions Series; Moral Traditions (Paperback); Moral Traditions series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, East Asian and Indian philosophy