1st Edition
Philosophy and the Spiritual Life
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Preface
1 The spiritual life and philosophy: a historical and contemporary orientation
Rhett Gayle, Victoria S. Harrison, and Tyler Dalton McNabb
PART I Spiritual practice and philosophical understanding
2 Beginning with the spiritual life
Mark R. Wynn
3 Engagement, immersion, and enactment: the role of spiritual practice in religious belief
John Cottingham
4 Philosophy as a spiritual exercise: some ethical and aesthetic reflections
Douglas Hedley
PART II Philosophical reflections on living a spiritual life
5 The unexamined life is not worth living: examination of conscience and philosophy as a way of life
Daniel D. de Haan
6 Blinding darkness: or, whose being is this, anyway?
Gwen Griffith-Dickson
7 A pluralist account of spiritual exemplarity
Ian James Kidd
8 Self-transformation and spiritual exemplars
Victoria S. Harrison and Rhett Gayle
PART III Philosophical problems concerning the spiritual life
9 The problem of the self-ascription of sainthood
Gorazd Andrejč
10 Boredom and divine infinity
Jonathan Hill
11 Desire and the spiritual life
Fiona Ellis
Biography
Victoria S. Harrison is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau, China. Until 2016, she was Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where she directed the Forum for Philosophy and Religion.
Tyler Dalton McNabb is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis University, Pennsylvania.
