Cosmic consciousness and human excellence : implications for global ethics /

Cosmic consciousness and human excellence : implications for global ethics / edited by Mahmoud Masaeli and Rico Sneller. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (vii, 331 pages)

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I: Cosmic consciousness in the modern time. Chapter one. Cosmo-consciousness : introduction / Chapter two. Richard Maurice Bucke and the modern study of cosmic consciousness / Chapter three. Emanuel Swedenborg : a human cosmology / Chapter four. Why was Pictures excluded from Leaves of grass? On the extended self in Whitman's poetic project / Chapter five. Walter Russell and the cosmogony of consciousness / Chapter six. Cosmic consciousness and nature from a phenomenological viewpoint / Chapter seven. In celebration of trees / Part II: Between transcendence and reality. Chapter eight. The birth of tragedy in Christianity and the tragic sense of law / Chapter nine. Cosmic consciousness in kabbalistic Judaism / Chapter ten. Return to the heart of Christ consciousness : Catholic thought on Islamic terrorism and the road towards interfaith dialogue / Chapter eleven. Plotinus and the problem of the political : on the tension between becoming the one and being with others / Chapter twelve. Fourfold ecstasy, leading to cosmic consciousness : Marsilio Ficino's comments on a Platonic theme / Chapter thirteen. 'Symbolic healing - C. G. Jung' for cosmic consciousness and human excellence / Part III: Cosmic consciousness and global ethics. Chapter fourteen. Cosmic consciousness and the prospect of a global humanistic pedagogy : Saint Augustine's heritage / Chapter fifteen. African hermeneutics of illuminating consciousness : the intercultural problem of language and hermeneutics / Chapter sixteen. The view of the future seen from the past for human excellence-- the Colombian case : stellar history / Chapter seventeen. Cosmic dynamism and the principle of self-regulation / Rico Sneller and Mahmoud Masaeli -- Ulisses Schlosser -- John Poynton -- German Bula -- Constanza Cárdenas Trejos and Paul Dávila Mateus -- Gérald Hess -- Richard Berengarten -- Timo Slootweg -- Rico Sneller -- Marco Ceccarelli -- Samuel Harrington -- Rijk Schipper -- Barbara Helen Miller -- Anthony Ikechukwu Kanu -- Stanley Uche Anozie -- Robert Ojeda Perez and Maria Isabel Zapata -- Ann Van Sevenant.



9781527527164


Compassion--Philosophy.
Consciousness--Philosophy.
Ethics.


Electronic Books.

BJ1475 / .C676 2018