| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) |
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Toronto studies in philosophy |
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Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Contents |
Part 1 A Phenomenological Approach -- 1 Constituents and Classification 3 -- Types 9 -- Other Typologies 10 -- 2 Narratives 14 -- An Instance of Aesthetic Experience 14 -- An Instance of Ontological Experience 16 -- An Instance of Ethical Experience 20 -- An Instance of Interpersonal Experience 22 -- Part 2 Historic Contributions -- 3 Kant and the Sublime 27 -- Phenomenology 28 -- Mediation of the Mind 31 -- Unfolding of the Mathematical Sublime 37 -- Concept of Infinite 40 -- 4 Schleiermacher and Absolute Dependence 47 -- In the Wake of Kant 47 -- A Tripartite Division of Human Life 49 -- Feeling 51 -- Mediatedness 54 -- Absolute Dependence 57 -- Awareness of the 'Whence' 59 -- Experience and Objectification 64 -- 5 Hegel and the Dialectic of the Infinite 69 -- Rejection of Kant's Infinite 70 -- Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Kant 77 -- Rejection of Schleiermacher's Absolute Dependence 82 -- Assessment of Hegel's Criticism of Schleiermacher 86 -- 6 William James and Religious Experience 89 -- Four Marks of Mysticism 90 -- Feeling and Thought 92 -- Pragmatic Method 95 -- Divine as an Undubitable Object 99 -- Will to Believe 101 -- 7 Rudolf Otto and the Numinous 105 -- Feeling or Emotion? 106 -- Uniqueness and Ineffability 109 -- Non-rational and the Rational 111 -- Holy as an A Priori Category 116 -- A Faculty That Perceives the Numinous 120 -- 8 Marechal, Rahner, and Lonergan 125 -- From the Transcendental to the Transcendent 125 -- Fascination with the Mystery 128 -- Four Levels of Consciousness 132 -- Feeling 135 -- Immediacy and Mediation 137 -- Religious Experience and Conversion 139 -- Part 3 Validity of Transcendent Experiences -- Experience 146 -- Intentionality and Transcendence 151 -- Indefiniteness and the Infinite 156 -- Feeling and Discovery 161 -- Interpretation 166 -- Directness and Mediation 175 |
| Summary |
This book begins by drawing attention to the fact that many people acknowledge having had a transcendent experience, namely an event in which they had the impression that they were in contact with something boundless and limitless, which they could not get hold of, and which utterly surpassed human capacities. Prompted by such sociological data, the author endeavours rigorously to show that the human person is open to the infinite. Since transcendent experiences involve an emotional response and an intelligible discovery, he explores both the affective and intellectual sides of this openness and their interrelation. The first part is phenomenological; the second, a history of great ideas; and the third, philosophy of religion. Part One offers an original account of types and elements of transcendent experiences. It also analyses four narratives. Part Two introduces some of the major classical thinkers of modernity: Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, James and Otto, as well as more recent ones such as MarTchal, Rahner, and Lonergan. In this part, there is a fresh reading of these authors' reflections on the human being and the infinite. Part Three makes a contribution to current issues such as experience and interpretation, intentionality and transcendence, the relationship between the infinite and the indefiniteness of the imagination and of reason, directness and mediation, and the role of feelings in religious experience. The author concludes that the human person is open to an infinite that is real and yet unknown by the human intellect |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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Experience (Religion)
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Infinite.
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infinity.
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RELIGION -- Spirituality.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Phenomenology.
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Experience (Religion)
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Infinite
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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Religiosität
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Transzendenz
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Erfahrung
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442682733 |
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1442682736 |
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1282014447 |
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9781282014442 |
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