Poetic Inclinations

Poetic Inclinations
Author: Dorthe Jørgensen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8772195630

Philosophy originates in wonder that generates sensitive thinking, also called ‘aesthetic thinking’—an expanded mode of thought that bridges and dissolves contradictions. This book questions the disregard for such thinking in modern society, including the neglect of it in most educational institutions and contemporary research. It describes what it means to think in an aesthetic way when ‘aesthetic’ is synonymous with ‘sensitive’ (not ‘sensuous’), including how such thinking may foster human well-being and develop our notions of history, hospitality, freedom, and the good life. The formative nature of aesthetic thinking is presented alongside the attestation of its relevance in many disciplines and a broad spectrum of society—in border studies, education policy, and social work, and in life in general. Poetic Inclinations: Ethics, History, Philosophy is related to the simultaneously published monograph Imaginative Moods: Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy. Together they constitute a comprehensive presentation in English of the author’s philosophy of experience, which includes new ways of conceiving of and applying aesthetics, hermeneutics, and phenomenology, and of integrating these disciplines, as well as theology.

Pensar la religión

Pensar la religión
Author: Pedro Gómez García
Publisher: BOD GmbH DE
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 8413738199

En el horizonte de estos tiempos agitados, la problemática tocante a la religión ha irrumpido con insistencia en el primer plano de la actualidad. No es tan solo una cuestión académica, sino uno de esos temas con implicaciones sociopolíticas nacionales e internacionales que levantan pasiones enconadas, ante los que casi nadie permanece indiferente. Unos y otros toman partido. Un hecho que llama la atención es la fuerza con que, últimamente, salen a la luz no pocos antagonistas de las creencias y las instituciones religiosas. Así ocurre también en España, en ocasiones de manera un tanto sectaria, con escasa información y lejos de la altura intelectual requerida para abordar con suficiente competencia el necesario debate. Esta obra entra de lleno en ese debate. Los capítulos del libro se hallan agrupados en tres partes. En la primera, compendio y someto a examen los argumentos en contra de la religión, en una mirada panorámica al contexto actual de notorios intelectuales conocidos por hacer apología del ateísmo, unos pertenecientes a los dominios de las ciencias, otros al ámbito de la filosofía en un sentido amplio. Al tratar sobre esto, someto a revisión la reiterada e irresuelta polémica entre ciencia y religión, para comprobar que casi siempre se resiente de un mal planteamiento por ambos lados. En efecto, sorprende el paradójico uso anticientífico de la ciencia y el dogmatismo habitualmente reinante, que impide todo verdadero diálogo. En la segunda parte, al adentrarme en la búsqueda de las bases teóricas, tomo como punto de partida el hecho de que la religión, en su significado más general, constituye un comportamiento propio de la especie humana, expresado en diferentes registros. Por lo tanto, conviene indagar, en primer lugar, su anclaje bioantropológico, es decir, el enraizamiento de la religión en la naturaleza humana, entendida como resultado de la evolución biológica. Es imprescindible, además, centrarse en la religión como sistema sociocultural, con su estructura, funciones y evolución, puesto que la condición humana solo se realiza en el terreno de la historia y despliega sus configuraciones por medio de la cultura. No cabe obviar ni omitir que, más allá de los genes y más acá de las personas, existen sistemas culturales y se da una evolución cultural. Al mismo tiempo, conviene observar el modo como opera la religión a escala individual, pues el individuo no se limita a ser un espécimen de la especie natural, ni tampoco un clónico socio de

Pensar la religión

Pensar la religión
Author: Eugenio Trías
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy and religion
ISBN: 9789879423646

Axolotl

Axolotl
Author: Luis Muñoz Flores
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146331485X

Al igual que el ajolote cuya existencia puede manifestarse en dos diferentes elementos, el agua y el aire, Axolotl procede de la mezcla de dos culturas unidas por el amor. Y en su lucha contra la injusticia de una sociedad decadente que se ha formado en medio de la disputa por el poder entre gobierno y religión, sabe que de la misma manera que el ajolote lo hizo, él también ha logrado trascender hacia lo verdaderamente importante en la existencia humana. Ahora deberá motivar un cambio en la consciencia de la humanidad por medio de la información y de demostrar que esta sociedad ha fracasado al entregarse al materialismo puro y su única salvación será la transformación del ser humano a través del servicio motivado por el amor a sus hermanos. Luis Muñoz Flores.

Imaginative Moods

Imaginative Moods
Author: Dorthe Jørgensen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8772195614

Following modern and postmodern philosophy’s critique of metaphysics, experiences of transcendence are often considered ‘aesthetic’ rather than ‘metaphysical.’ However, aesthetics is mostly identified with the study of art, and aesthetic phenomena are considered particularly sensuous. This book criticizes such an approach to aesthetics, which has led many philosophers and theologians to neglect or reject aesthetics as a philosophical or theological discipline. It demonstrates how contemporary philosophy and theology may benefit from studying the mind-opening and world-transformative nature of our experiences of transcendence. In addition, it presents the significance of such experiences for the understanding of, for example, art, faith, prayer, presence, beauty, sensitivity, imagination, receptivity, and divinity. Imaginative Moods: Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy is related to the simultaneously published monograph Poetic Inclinations: Ethics, History, Philosophy. Together they constitute a comprehensive presentation in English of the author’s philosophy of experience, which includes new ways of conceiving of and applying aesthetics, hermeneutics, and phenomenology, and of integrating these disciplines, as well as theology.

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti

The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher: Editorial Kier
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789501711929

Within the process of daily relations with people, with nature, and with society, our own causes of sorrow are revealed. 'In relationship the important thing to bear in mind is not the other but oneself, ' states Krishnamurti, 'It is within oneself that harmony in relationship can be found, not in another, nor in environment.' (p. 160) This is not cause for isolation but the beginning of a process of self-revelation which creates the foundation for true relationship.

Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America

Laicidad and Religious Diversity in Latin America
Author: Juan Marco Vaggione
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319447459

This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Further, it includes theoretical and empirical analyses that identify the connections between religion and politics that characterize Latin American countries in general. The individual chapters are based on a dialogue between regional and international approaches, renewing them and taking them to their limits by incorporating the Latin American experience. The book reflects the current intensification of research on religion in Latin America, the resulting reassessment of previous approaches, and the strengthening of empirical studies. It provides vital insight into the ways in which politics regulates the religious sphere, as well as how religion modulates and intervenes in politics in Latin America. In doing so it builds a bridge between the findings of researchers in the region on the one hand and the English-speaking academic public on the other, contributing to a dialogue that enriches comparative perspectives.

Introducción a Søren Kierkegaard, o la teología patas arriba AETH

Introducción a Søren Kierkegaard, o la teología patas arriba AETH
Author: Association for Hispanic Theological Education
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 1990-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426760191

Eliseo Pérez Álvarez presenta en su libro a un Kierkegaard que va más allá de lo que leemos de él en muchas introducciones. Aquí, además, es el profeta, el denunciante de la injusticia social y de la hipocresía eclesiástica y religiosa. Eliseo "nos engancha entreteniéndonos con sus imágenes culinarias, al tiempo que nos lleva a reconocer cuanta razón tenía Kierkegaard en mucho de lo que dijo ..." In this book, the author presents a Kierkegaard that goes beyond what we read of him in many textbooks. Aside from a look at Kierkegaard the prophet, the denouncer of the social injustice and of the religious and ecclesiastical hypocrisy, Álvarez treats readers to a detailed examination of the times that formed Kierkegaard’s teachings and philosphies. Eliseo Perez-Alvarez studied theology and philosophy in Mexico City, Atlanta, Chicago and Copenhagen. He has been professor, pastor, editor and coordinator for Hispanic Ministries in Mexico, USA, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. He currently is an Associate Professor of Latino Theology and Mission at the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Divining History

Divining History
Author: Jayne Svenungsson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1785331744

For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.

Kierkegaard y las artes

Kierkegaard y las artes
Author: González Vazquez, Darío
Publisher: Editorial UOC
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8491161333