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"This excellent introduction to the idea of philosophy as a spiritual exercise or 'way of life' engages us from the start through its mixture of literary genres and the charm of its writing which nevertheless carries the charge of a compelling passion. Goodchild recalls philosophers to their ancient vocation: to examine and expose assumptions that shape people's lives, sometimes disastrously. He asks whether the failure of philosophers to examine and expose their own assumptions has brought them into collusion with, and uncritical bondage to, conceptions of life, reason, and value which have had terrible consequences, moral and political, economic and ecological." - Michael McGhee, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Liverpool, UK
"Very few writers today are willing, in an age of conformity and uniformity, to experiment. How rare it is to read a book that is both original in thought and style. Using Plato's Symposium as his guide, Goodchild reinvigorates the original practice of philosophy for our times as a spiritual journey of self-questioning and discovery." - William Large, President of the British Society of Phenomenology, UK
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Book Title: On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise
Book Subtitle: A Symposium
Editors: Philip Goodchild
Series Title: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137353146
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Philip Goodchild 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35576-8Published: 07 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47025-9Published: 07 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35314-6Published: 07 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2634-663X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 186
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Epistemology