Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Dr Robert M. Wallace (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350082861 (ISBN)

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Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism’s claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the framework of mysticism’s higher or more inner reality allows nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the rest. And this is why Plato’s notion of ascent or turning inward to a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein.

Wallace’s Philosophical Mysticism brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.

Robert M. Wallace is a philosopher and translator who as translated Hans Blumenberg, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Odo Marquard. He is author of Hegel’s Philosophy of Reality, Freedom and God (2005).

Preface

Introduction
1. “A Worm! A God!”
2. “That Which Shows God in Me, Fortifies Me”
3. Freedom and Full Reality
4. Full Reality Is God
5. Plato’s Progress
6. Plato, Freedom, and Us
7. Plato on Reason, Love, and Inspiration
8. Plato on “Becoming Like God”
9. Ordinary and Extraordinary Experiences of God

Appendix: Comparisons Between the Plato/Hegel Argument for a God Within Us, and Several Well-Known Arguments for God

Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781350082861 / 9781350082861
Zustand	Neuware