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From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical
Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western
philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in
their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic. Its
aim is to revive for the modern reader the spiritual import of
philosophy as an area of inquiry and study. Spirituality is
understood as a lived orientation towards the sacred. The sacred is
characterized as the source of all being and human wellbeing.
Philosophy is presented as an avenue of approach to the sacred
alternative to the western religious traditions. Philosophers
treated include Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel,
Kierkegaard, Emerson, William James, Bertrand Russell, and Simone
Weil.
From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical
Spirituality reads major philosophers from the Western
philosophical canon and beyond for the spirituality implicit in
their metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and logic.
Ernest Rubinstein revives for the modern reader the spiritual
import of philosophy as an area of inquiry and study. Spirituality
is understood as a lived orientation towards the sacred. The sacred
is characterized as the source of all being and human wellbeing.
Philosophy is presented as an avenue of approach to the sacred
alternative to the western religious traditions. Philosophers
treated include Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel,
Kierkegaard, Emerson, William James, Bertrand Russell, and Simone
Weil.
Examining romanticism in thought of Jewish philosopher. Franz
Rosenzweig, this book compares his magnum opus, Star of Redemption,
with Leo Baeck's essay, "Romantic Religion, " and Friedrich
Schelling's Philosophy of Art, texts representing distinct and, to
a large extent, opposed interpretations of romanticism.
Rosenzweig's thought was shaped by two intellectual history
Germany's and Judaism's. Because romanticism had such a definitive
impact on modern German writing and thought, it becomes a question
whether, and to what extent, Rosenzweig, too, was a romantic. Part
of the force of the question derives from the tensions sometimes
noted between Jewish and romantic worldviews. In this book, author
Ernest Rubinstein shows The Star of Redemption to be along the
spectrum that extends between Baeck and Schelling, and thus
illustrates a qualified romanticism.
Looks at the relationship between religion and literature and how
both have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility.
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