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THE MYSTERIOUS ABYSS OF EXISTENCE : = GROUNDWORK FOR THE LIFE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGE (SPINOZA, EXISTENTIALISM, LAO TSE, TAOISM, KIERKEGAARD; GERMANY, CHINA, DENMARK).

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Title/Author:	THE MYSTERIOUS ABYSS OF EXISTENCE :/
Reminder of title:	GROUNDWORK FOR THE LIFE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGE (SPINOZA, EXISTENTIALISM, LAO TSE, TAOISM, KIERKEGAARD; GERMANY, CHINA, DENMARK).
Author:	ART, BRADFORD LEE.
Description:	1 online resource (368 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A, page: 1967.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
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THE MYSTERIOUS ABYSS OF EXISTENCE : = GROUNDWORK FOR THE LIFE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGE (SPINOZA, EXISTENTIALISM, LAO TSE, TAOISM, KIERKEGAARD; GERMANY, CHINA, DENMARK).
ART, BRADFORD LEE.

THE MYSTERIOUS ABYSS OF EXISTENCE :GROUNDWORK FOR THE LIFE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGE (SPINOZA, EXISTENTIALISM, LAO TSE, TAOISM, KIERKEGAARD; GERMANY, CHINA, DENMARK). - 1 online resource (368 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-07, Section: A, page: 1967.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references

What is the "best" life? How can I live it? Can we live the narrow line between boredom and anxiety of indecision? between particularity and universality? between freedom and aloneness? between authentic creativity and the absurd? The thesis critically explores the "world pictures" inherent in different ways of living. Explicating assumptions of the moral and the "aesthetic" lives, we recognize their promise and their shortcomings. Despite apparent similarities, each vision of living has its own conception of the self, of others, of time, of freedom, of engagement, and of reality. A phenomenological explication and critique of ideal character types allows us to bypass the conceptual misunderstandings of the each vision. We rediscover the underlying questions and experiences posed by each vision of living.

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2018

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Philosophy.
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Electronic books.

THE MYSTERIOUS ABYSS OF EXISTENCE : = GROUNDWORK FOR THE LIFE OF THE VIRTUOUS SAGE (SPINOZA, EXISTENTIALISM, LAO TSE, TAOISM, KIERKEGAARD; GERMANY, CHINA, DENMARK).
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520 $a What is the "best" life? How can I live it? Can we live the narrow line between boredom and anxiety of indecision? between particularity and universality? between freedom and aloneness? between authentic creativity and the absurd? The thesis critically explores the "world pictures" inherent in different ways of living. Explicating assumptions of the moral and the "aesthetic" lives, we recognize their promise and their shortcomings. Despite apparent similarities, each vision of living has its own conception of the self, of others, of time, of freedom, of engagement, and of reality. A phenomenological explication and critique of ideal character types allows us to bypass the conceptual misunderstandings of the each vision. We rediscover the underlying questions and experiences posed by each vision of living.
520 $a The life of the "virtuous sage" that we offer is derived from a careful reading of Spinoza's Ethics and Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching. The "virtuous sage" more directly confronts the question of conceptually and experientially relating to the self, to others and to reality. The "way" of the virtuous sage produces both his freedom and his valuing attitudes. The virtuous sage's "way" is open, courageous, self-knowing, actively patient (wu wei), "quietly" creating, actively listening, intuitively and affectively questioning,... Being free, his beliefs, desires, wants, etc. are harmoniously coincident with the necessity of reality.
520 $a The thesis arises from a diversified intellectual background. It brings together the clarity of analysis with the questions and content of existentialism and phenomenology (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Buber, etc.), with the aid of historical figures (Spinoza, Aristotle, Plato, Mill, Kant, Hume) and with the approach of oriental thought (zen, Lao Tse). Interdisciplinary in scope, the work combines philosophy and literature, psychology, religion, social-political theory, and theories of culture.
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