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Pursuing Eudaimonia [electronic resource]

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This book offers an original account of an ancient, alternative form of 'negative' reason which stands in antithesis to its modern instrumental form which has dominated thinking about the pursuit of human development since the Enlightenment. It advances arguments for the recovery of such reason as a spiritual and therapeutic way of life and demonstrates that it is impossible to fully appreciate the Christian apophatic tradition without investigating the intricacies of its philosophical herita...

Title Pursuing Eudaimonia [electronic resource] : re-appropriating the Greek philosophical foundations of the Christian apophatic tradition / Brendan Cook.
Publisher Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars
Creation Date 2013
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CONCLUSION
ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY TIMELINE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Series Liverpool Hope University studies in ethics series
10
Extent 1 online resource (261 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010720854405171
MARC RECORDS
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