Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0511011687
9780511011689
0511034350
9780511034350
9780511612435
0511612435
1280429488
9781280429484
0521777534
0511151586
9780511151583
9780521771696
0521771692
9780521777537
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book draws on both the Greek and Buddhist traditions, recognising that it is time for Western thinkers to acknowledge and respond to an intercultural canon. It aims to integrate ethics and a non-theistic philosophy of religion through the medium of aesthetics, mapping Buddhist 'mindfulness' and the Greek virtues and vices of temperance and licentiousness, continence and incontinence, onto an account of the development of moral sentiments and their relation to practical judgement in the context of oppressive political and social realities.
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| Other form: | Print version: McGhee, Michael. Transformations of mind. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521777534
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