From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality

By Ernest Rubinstein

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611477263
• ISBN13: 9781611477269
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"