“Many Know Much but Do Not Know Themselves”: Self-Knowledge, Humility, and Perfection in the Medieval Affective Contemplative Tradition [PDF]
, 2018 Today, philosophers interested in self-knowledge usually look to the scholastic tradition, where the topic is addressed in a systematic and familiar way.
Van Dyke, Christina
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Augustine’s Paradigm ’ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora’ in the Western and Eastern Christian Mysticism [PDF]
, 2015 I argue that St. Augustine of Hippo was the first in the history of Christian spirituality who expressed a key tendency of Christian mysticism, which implies a gradual intellectual ascent of the human soul to God, consisting of the three main stages ...
Alexey, Fokin
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Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes [PDF]
, 2016 In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered in the light of EcoGothic ...
Elbert, Monika
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L’esperienza del distacco. Elementi di una filosofia della mistica [PDF]
, 2006 This essay aims at clarifying the essence of mystical experience in the main universal religions. To this effect, the author investigates the notion of ‘detachment’ and, from this, conducts a comparative analysis of the modes of detachment actually ...
Fabris, Adriano
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Book Review: Hindu Thought & Carmelite Mysticism [PDF]
, 2000 A review of Hindu Thought & Carmelite Mysticism by Swami ...
Stoeber, Michael
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knowledge and truth; Comparison of cognition methodology in the philosophy of Ibn Arabi and Soren Kierkegaard [PDF]
حکمت معاصرThis paper presents a comparative study of the epistemological methodologies in the philosophy of Ibn Arabi and Søren Kierkegaard. Ibn Arabi, within the framework of Islamic mysticism, views true knowledge as attained through mystical experiences and ...
Hosein Shams
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Mystical Experience and Aesthetic Experience: Affirmation of Incarnate Being
Cuestiones Teológicas, 2017 The article aims to account for the meaningful connection between mystical experience and aesthetic experience. The conceptual basis of the article is found in the philosophical thought of Gabriel Marcel.
Rosana Elena Navarro S. +3 more
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AESTHETICS, CREATIVITY, AND MYSTICISM: AN INVESTIGATION OF THREE MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Zygon, 2019 This essay explores the universal nature of aesthetic, creative, and mystical experience, tracing some essential interrelations among the three. Enlarging upon the work of anthropologist Jacques Maquet, I speculate that “sensory fixedness” is both ...
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The perceiving process and mystical orientation : an empirical study in psychological type theory among participants at the parliament of the world's religions [PDF]
, 2012 A sample of 580 participants attending the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona 2004 completed the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale together with a measure of psychological type (the Francis Psychological Type Scales) in order to ...
Cargas, Sarita +2 more
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3. Bonaventura and Medieval Mysticism
, 1958 Throughout the whole history of religious experience there have been two supplementary emphases, the rational and the non-rational, which have vied with each other for men\u27s allegiance. The Thomistic synthesis, with its stress on reason and how reason
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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