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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present (Hardcover)
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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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