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x, 157 pages ; 25 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Critical realism--interventions series |
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Critical realism--interventions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
General theoretical introduction. From critical realism to the philosophy of self-realisation -- Odyssey of a soul. To the Promised Land. Part A: Under the stars: re-enchanting reality. Part B: Under the stars: re-enchanting reality. Interlude: From East To West: retrospect and prospect -- sketches. On the path: or to the Promised Land Part II. The cement of the universe and the search for yoga. A Taoist dawn. At the heartbeat of the Buddha. Transcendence and totality: or salted lasee with the Guru. Back to basics: life as a sultan and its karma. The Dance of Shiva in the Age of Aquarius. |
| Summary |
"In his most audacious and radical book to date, Roy Bhaskar develops his existing philosophy of dialectical critical realism into a philosophy of and for universal self-realisation, which he also terms a transcendental dialectical critical realism. A general theoretical introduction establishes the existence of God as the fundamental categorial structure of the world and unconditional love as the cement of the universe." |
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"This system of thought is followed by a narrative novella designed to render plausible the ideas of reincarnation, karma and moksha or liberation and to support an ethic of engaged but unattached activity in the world, ultimately oriented to universal self-realisation in the becoming of what From East to West argues we already essentially (but only partially, i.e. not only) are, namely free or enlightened. To realise this, Bhaskar argues, we have to shed both the illusion that we are not essentially free and Godlike, and the constraining determinations (constituting an objective world of illusion, duality and alienation) which that illusion grounds." |
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"A radical resynthesis of aspects of Western and Eastern thought, this book is also a major new development in critical realism. From East to West is bound to stimulate debate in ontology, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of (comparative) religion."--Jacket. |
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Critical realism.
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Critical realism. (OCoLC)fst00883688
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Religion -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01093794
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| ISBN |
0415233240 (alk. paper) |
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9780415233248 (alk. paper) |
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0415233259 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780415233255 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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