...This chapter attempts to show that Neoplatonic configurations of soul arise transgressively in genetic transfiguration. It highlights some manifestations of the depersonalized subject and examines the accounts of soul in the Neoplatonist philosophies of Plotinus and Iamblichus to show that the gene...

... on the world as a “vale of Soul-making,” a model of reading the world through encounters with the unknown replaces the progress model of enlightenment historiography exemplified by Voltaire and William Robertson. This chapter makes the case that “To Autumn” illustrates the temporality and disorientation...

... Maritain Jacques Beauty Christian Holistic Mystery Ontological Poetic Being Energy Incarnation Presence Metaphors Einstein Albert Empathy Happiness creative imagination soul-body unity human human intelligence freedom free will human spirit My aim in this essay is to engage...

... that amidst the chaos, he found peace and exaltation in the superhuman atmosphere in which the soul had again been acclimatized, and that during this time he felt elevated to the very frontier of the World and closer to God. community evolution humanity science Earth God Christ Paul Saint Christianity...

..., James's concept of a “sick soul,” and Dewey's concept of experience. It also explores the challenges of contingency in relation to pragmatist philosophy of religion, along with semiotics as the key tool to conceptualizing the significance of transcendence. belief Darwinism idea ideal the individual...

...Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of over easy answers, with a singular, totalizing “God” and the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But religious thought has always been more interesting—indeed, a rich source of endlessly unfolding questions...

... in a life—and in a text like the Phaedrus—foster the kinds of unmooring needed for the self to change and for truer lines of sight onto the world (or the text) to be opened. She claims Plato's conception (and literary constructions) of the soul are a viable source for accounting...

...Rapp begins with a question posed by poet Theodore Roethke: “should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke's query...

... dissidence movement. Foucault’s often remarked advocacy of human rights is placed in the context of Jan Patocka’s theory of resistance, which is inspired by a return to the Platonic motif of a “care of the soul.” Forti argues that such care is anti-pastoral in its intentions, because by separating the soul...

... styles. Most critics found the result disorderly, confusing, and lacking in content, equating instrumental music to a performing body without a soul. Nevertheless, a small group of thinkers began to propose an alternative, cryptodualist solution: they posited that it was specifically music’s special...

.... It is the child of the relationship between the spirit and the soul. heart will self evil peace body spirit soul oneness multiplicity The will must both deny and affirm: if it must deny objects toward which the self strives, in view of their deceptiveness, which is revealed in changeability, it must...

..., intermediary space between bodies and souls. It is precisely in this place and time that forms make themselves sensible. This chapter argues that an image is defined by a dual exteriority, the exteriority from bodies and the exteriority from souls, and that the extreme boundary of exteriority is populated...

...Continuing to discuss Herder's aesthetic anthropology, Menke notes that the soul is constantly manipulated by as well as comprised of “obscure forces”. Furthering his comparison of subjectivity and natural aesthetics, he raises a timeless question: Do we truly perceive aesthetics, or are aesthetics...

... Peter humanism the human Toop David Lyotard Jean François symbol unity Henri Chopin sound art/poetry Jean-Luc Nancy Sleep Breath Buccality the soul the body The lines separating music and poetry, writing and painting, are purely arbitrary, and sound poetry is precisely designed to break...

...This chapter presents traditional Catholic doctrine on the creation of the human soul by God. It provides information on the classic philosophical argumentation of Saint Thomas regarding the latter Catholic doctrine. It also discusses new contemporary challenges to it from within Christian thought...

... and see only God as truth is the god-filled vision that the author leads. At the summit of mystical life, the soul is closely united to God that it is He who knows, acts, and loves within it. In the purified tranquility of darkness, guided by the blind stirring, the soul goes down to the center of its...

...This chapter explores the relation between religion and morality from a pragmatist point of view, with particular emphasis on William James's pragmatism and especially his concept of a “sick soul.” It first considers the nature of ethically acceptable religious outlooks by focusing on evil...

...The chapter revolves around two problems that intrigued medieval masters the most concerning Paul's rapture: how to define his mode of cognition during rapture, while he himself confessed not to have known whether his soul was in or out of his body, and how does his mode of knowing God then differ...

... thing that cannot be controlled or incorporated into anything else. Thus, culture is a natural product and the most significant development that it incorporates is the concept of the environment. The author defines himself to be a unique, eternal, rational soul and he states that God himself is pure...

...In this chapter the author introduces his drama troupe, which is called Soul Purpose. This group travel to different places performing plays based on Bible stories. The author of this chapter was raised in a Lutheran Church. There are three things a theater professor does: lead the students to tell...