Book contents
- Spiritual Life
- Talking Philosophy
- Spiritual Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Philosophy and Religion in the Thought of Kierkegaard
- 2 De Consolatione Philosophiae
- 3 The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?
- 4 Love and Attention
- 5 Descartes’ Debt to Augustine
- 6 Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections
- 7 Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
- 8 Religious Imagination
- 9 Moral Values as Religious Absolutes
- 10 Revealing the Scapegoat Mechanism: Christianity after Girard
- 11 Philosophy vs. Mysticism: An Islamic Controversy
- 12 Non-Conceptuality, Critical Reasoning and Religious Experience: Some Tibetan Buddhist Discussions
- 13 ‘Know Thyself’: What Kind of an Injunction?
- 14 Facing Truths: Ethics and the Spiritual Life
- Index
- References
2 - De Consolatione Philosophiae
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Book contents
- Spiritual Life
- Talking Philosophy
- Spiritual Life
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Philosophy and Religion in the Thought of Kierkegaard
- 2 De Consolatione Philosophiae
- 3 The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?
- 4 Love and Attention
- 5 Descartes’ Debt to Augustine
- 6 Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections
- 7 Refined and Crass Supernaturalism
- 8 Religious Imagination
- 9 Moral Values as Religious Absolutes
- 10 Revealing the Scapegoat Mechanism: Christianity after Girard
- 11 Philosophy vs. Mysticism: An Islamic Controversy
- 12 Non-Conceptuality, Critical Reasoning and Religious Experience: Some Tibetan Buddhist Discussions
- 13 ‘Know Thyself’: What Kind of an Injunction?
- 14 Facing Truths: Ethics and the Spiritual Life
- Index
- References
Summary
So begins the famous work by Boethius from which I have taken my title: a work which, according to one of its earliest translators, King Alfred, is ‘among the books most necessary for all men to know’. The woman of Boethius’ vision is, of course, Philosophy—‘the nurse in whose house I had been cared for since my youth’.
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- Spiritual Life , pp. 49 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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