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Emotional practices, part 2: Affective construction, the triune self, & the art of joyful deliberation

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2020 | 1 Comment »

In part 1 of this article, I compared two recent books, each of which proclaims a “new paradigm” in the scientific study of emotions and affect: Lisa Feldman Barrett’s “constructivist” How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain and Stephen Asma’s and Rami Gabriel’s “basic emotions”-rooted The Emotional Mind: The Affective Roots of Culture and Cognition. In […]

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Comparative ‘practicology’: Philosophy as a way of life

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on January 21, 2018 | 21 Comments »

This course (an Honors College course I’m happy to be to teaching this year) is already in progress, but I’d be curious to hear any comments on it. What would you include in a comparative overview of spiritual practices? What’s missing?  Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Practice: Comparative Perspectives This course introduces students to the comparative study […]

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Isis takes Hadot

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Pierre Hadot died yesterday. An important influence on the later Foucault, a classicist whose readings of ancient Greco-Roman philosophers made them seem relevant once again, and an astute defender of the Orphic (as opposed to the Promethean) approach to Nature, Hadot’s influence was felt by many for whom philosophy is more than just a conceptual […]

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