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Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice

McGhee, Michael·2000·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511612435
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The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book draws on both the Greek and Buddhist traditions, recognising that it is time for Western thinkers to acknowledge and respond to an intercultural canon. It aims to integrate ethics and a non-theistic philosophy of religion through the medium of aesthetics, mapping Buddhist 'mindfulness' and the Greek virtues and vices of temperance and licentiousness, continence and incontinence, onto an account of the development of moral sentiments and their relation to practical judgement in the context of oppressive political and social realities.

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Authors
McGhee, M.
Affiliations
University of Liverpool (GB)
Corresponding author
McGhee, Michael
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2000-04-28
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511612435
OpenAlex
W4245921550
Cited by
65
References
0
Citations by year
2025: 9 · 2024: 17 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
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0.62
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 3510 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Literary Analysis
Keywords
meditation, silence, mental states, perception and action, Buddhist mindfulness, temperance, licentiousness, continence, incontinence, moral sentiments, practical judgment, ethics, aesthetics, oppression

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