Spirituality for the Skeptic

✍ Scribed by Robert C. Solomon;

• Publisher: OUP Premium
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: In the Spirit of Hegel
1 From Philosophy to Spirit and Spirituality
Spirituality, Religion, and Science
Being and Doing: Spirituality, Society, and Ritual
Imagine There’s No Heaven: Naturalizing Spirituality
Self-Actualizing Spirituality
Spirituality as a Larger Sense of Life
Liberating the Soul of Philosophy
2 Spirituality as Passion
Spirituality and Erotic Love
Spirituality as Reverence
The Passions of Spirituality: Nietzsche on Overflowing
3 Spirituality as Cosmic Trust
Spirituality and Authentic Trust
Faith as Trust
Emotional Poisons: Paranoia, Envy, and Resentment
Beyond Envy and Resentment: Contentment and Forgiveness
4 Spirituality as Rationality
Reason Versus the Passions?
Rationality Relativized
Science, Spirituality, and Rationality
Rationality Perverted: Smart Selfishness
Spirituality as the Rationality of Emotions
5 Facing Up to Tragedy
The Tragic Sense of Life
Denying Tragedy: The Temptation to Blame
The Problem of Evil
Blaming the Victims
The Meaning of Tragedy
6 Spirituality, Fate, and Fatalism
Making Sense of Fatalism
Fate as Character
Fate and Time
Fate and Luck as Two Modes of Meaning
Gratitude: The Idea of Life as a Gift
7 Looking Forward to Death?
The Denial of Death: A Brief History
The Denial of Death: An Analysis
Death Fetishism
Death is Nothing
Spirituality and the Social Dimension of Death
8 The Self in Transformation: Self, Soul, and Spirit
“Who are you?” Self and Soul
Beyond Descartes: Mind and the Mind-Body Problem
Body, Mind, and Soul: Some Asian Perspectives
The Rise of the Western Soul
Soul and Society (Kafka’s Identity Crisis)
Spirituality, Soul, and the Transformation of the Self
Credits
Notes
Index
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