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THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF STOIC ASCESIS

, 2022
This chapter aims to develop a language for describing and appreciating the 'spiritual' dimension of Stoic ethics of self-cultivation. Stoic 'spirituality' has frequently made researchers uncomfortable. I begin with the argument that this should be recognized and set aside.
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Between Misery and Dignity: Unrealised Anthropological Diptych of Lothar of Segni (Pope Innocent III)

Edinost in Dialog, 2021
The handbooks of medieval philosophy consider Lothar of Segni (1161–1216), pope Innocent III, as a violent misanthropist and obscurantist. The article sheds a new light on the founder of medieval ascetism in Christianity, relating his work with the ...
Jernej Šček
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Godaan Seorang Imam dalam Pelayanan menurut Yohanes Krisostomus

Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, 2021
. This article discussed how a priest (church elder or overseer) can overcome worldly temptations through three spiritual disciplines or ascesis: prayer, fasting, and inner guarding.
Hendi Hendi, Sesilina Gulo
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Ascesis y veridicción: arqueología exegética de la ontología ética de Michel Foucault [PDF]

, 2023
El periodo ético del pensar foucaultiano aborda la constitución histórica de la subjetividad preguntándose por las prácticas ascéticas que esta realiza en relación con la verdad entendida como veridicción. Sin embargo, la justificación de la inserción de
Ticchione Sáez, Diego Antonio
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A KAFKAESQUE AGE ASCESIS AND BIOPOLITICS

Soft Power, 2016
“The animal twists the whip out of its master’s grip and whips itself to become its own master.”1 Many have recognized a distinctive feature of our age in this false syllogism, in the blunder of mistaking emancipation for the willingness to whip oneself in sovereign autonomy.
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Ascesi, estasi e dipendenza. Contributi a un'antropologia storico-mediale, a partire da Sloterdijk [PDF]

Kaiak, 2019
This paper aims to enquire into the relationship between, on the one hand, the phenomenon of addiction; on the other, the use of psychotropic substances.
Marco Pavanini
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The Self‐as‐Philosopher: A Schema‐Informed Reading of Philosophy as a Way of Life

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 174-188, April 2026.
Abstract This article offers an original reading of the process and outcomes of training in philosophy as a way of life. By drawing on research and theory from the fields of cognitive psychology and adult learning, it argues that the transformative effects frequently ascribed to the practice of philosophy as a way of life can helpfully be ...
Joel Owen
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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The Past Requires Reconciliation

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 77, Issue 3-4, Page 205-221, July–October 2025.
Abstract This article presents three cases from the Orthodox Christian past that concern the defence of individuals and religious groups whose views differed from those of the official Orthodox Church. It also highlights the significance of the past in the Orthodox Christian context as a tradition that largely influences the behaviour of Orthodox ...
Petros A. Panagiotopoulos
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