Author: Cordie Jacob CulpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation ...
Author: Cordie Jacob CulpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation
Author: Cordie Jacob CulpPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984976888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
From the INTRODUCTION. The problem of renunciation arises in connection with the newer and more profound conception of the moral life, as it has been developed by modern writers. According to the traditional view, the ethical decision and moral choice had to do with one or other of the peculiar functions of consciousness, as feeling or intellect, sensibility or reason. Thus arose the dualism which occasioned the sharp conflict between Epicureanism and Stoicism, the ideal of the former being the enjoyment of life, while the latter made life a matter of obligation. This dualism persisted in modern thinking in the form of Hedonism on the one hand and Rationalism on the other with a constant conflict which served in time to reveal the inadequacy of either conception to meet the ethical demands of humanity. Hedonism possessed material and content in sensibility but lacked form and a regulating principle, while Rationalism had the form and regulating principle but lacked material and content. Consequently there was a search for a reconciling principle which would recognize the rights of both Hedonism and Rationalism. This search resulted in the conclusion that life must be conceived as an unit which took the form of Eudemonism, where self-realization through the aesthetical impulse was the ideal, or Rigorism, where the religious influence was paramount. Both views apprehended life as a whole but where Eudemonism counseled man to accept life, Rigorism demanded that he reject it. Therefore, the distinction which now obtains in the moral field, instead of forcing the ethical subject to choose between separate functions of consciousness, man is called upon to regard his life as an unity and upon this basis to either assert his life as a whole or deny it. Thus arises our problem of renunciation. For its proper consideration as an ethical ideal, its place in human thought and the forms in which it appears, it is necessary that this thesis be historical and expository with some critical estimate of renunciation as a problem in human life.
The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation
Author: Cordie Jacob CulpThe Ethical Ideal of Renunciation a Thesis
Author: Cordie Jacob CulpPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330322796
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation a Thesis The problem of renunciation arises in connection with the newer and more profound conception of the moral life, as it has been developed by modern writers. According to the traditional view, the ethical decision and moral choice had to do with one or other of the peculiar functions of consciousness, as feeling or intellect, sensibility or reason. Thus arose the dualism which occasioned the sharp conflict between Epicureanism and Stoicism, the ideal of the former being the enjoyment of life, while the latter made life a matter of obligation. This dualism persisted in modern thinking in the form of Hedonism on the one hand and Rationalism on the other with a constant conflict which served in time to reveal the inadequacy of either conception to meet the ethical demands of humanity. Hedonism possessed material and content in sensibility but lacked form and a regulating principle, while Rationalism had the form and regulating principle but lacked material and content. Consequently there was a search for a reconciling principle which would recognize the rights of both Hedonism and Rationalism. This search resulted in the conclusion that life must be conceived as an unit which took the form of Eudaemonism, where self-realization through the aesthetical impulse was the ideal, or Rigorism, where the religious influence was paramount. Both views apprehended life as a whole but where Eudaemonism counselled man to accept life, Rigorism demanded that he reject it. Therefore, the distinction which now obtains in the moral field, instead of forcing the ethical subject to choose between separate functions of consciousness, man is called upon to regard his life as an unity and upon this basis to either assert his life as a whole or deny it. Thus arises our problem of renunciation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal
Author: Robert Henri CousineauPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027220786
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of contemporary analytic, hermeneutic and (post)deconstructionist thought. The author seeks the dialogue with the texts and the reader and gradually brings to the fore the ethical. In the words of the author: Most works on Nietzsche talk about him, few address him, much less invite the reader to walk with him. It is time for a dialogical itinerary.
The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation ..
Author: Cordie Jacob 1872-1952 CulpPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355348351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
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The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation
Author: Cordie Jacob CulpPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341364525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Renunciation
Author: Ross PosnockPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674967830
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Renunciation as a creative force in the careers of writers, philosophers, and artists is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and refusal that have long baffled critics, he shows how renunciation has reframed the relationship of artists and intellectuals to society in productive and unpredictable ways. In a work of remarkable synthesis that includes traditions and genres from antiquity to postmodernity, Posnock discovers connections among disparate figures ranging from Lao Tzu to Dave Chappelle and Bob Dylan. The thread running through these acts of renunciation, he argues, is an aesthetic and ethical resistance to the demand that one’s words and actions be straightforward and immediately comprehensible. Modern art in particular valorizes the nonconceptual and the intuitive, seeking to make silence articulate and incompletion fertile. Renouncers reject not only artistic and scholarly conventions but also the public roles that attend them. Wittgenstein, Rimbaud, and Glenn Gould brazenly flouted professional and popular expectations, demanding that philosophy, poetry, music play by new rules. Emerson and Nietzsche severed all institutional ties, while William James waged a guerrilla campaign from his post at Harvard against what all three considered to be the enemy: the pernicious philosophical insistence on rationality. Posnock also examines renunciations in light of World War II—the veterans J. D. Salinger and George Oppen, and the Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—while a fourth cluster includes the mystic Thomas Merton and the abstract painters Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin.
The Ethics of Sankara and Santideva
Author: Warren Lee ToddPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317033701
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Exploring the philosophical concerns of the nature of self, this book draws from two of the most influential Indian masters, Śaṅkara and Śāntideva. Todd demonstrates that an ethics of altruism is still possible within a metaphysics which assumes there to be no independent self. A new ethical model based on the notions of ’flickering consciousness’ and ’constructive altruism’ is proposed. By comparing the metaphysics and ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva, Todd shows that the methodologies and aims of these Buddhist and Hindu masters trace remarkably similar cross-cutting paths. Treating Buddhism and Hinduism with equal respect, this book compares and reinterprets the Indian material so as to engage with contemporary Western debates on self and to show that Indian philosophy is indeed a philosophy of dialogue.
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Author: John FahyPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789206103
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.