Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Name: Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the framework of mysticism's higher or more inner reality allows nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the rest. And this is why Plato's notion of ascent or turning inward to a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein. Wallace's Philosophical Mysticism brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.

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Number of Pages:: 282
Release Date:: 2019-12-26
Publication Date:: 2019-12-26
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350082864
ISBN13:: 9781350082861
Weight:: 590 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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