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 Andrejc

10 Boredom and divine infinity

Jonathan Hill

11 Desire and the spiritual life

Fiona Ellis

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