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Provides a philosophical account of everyday consciousness as a way of understanding mystical consciousness, drawing on the work of many Western and some Japanese thinkers.

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Author:   Louis Roy, O.P.
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780791456446

ISBN 10:   0791456447
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   30 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Western Philosophies of Consciousness 1. Major Contributions Brentano Husserl Sartre Lonergan Concluding Remarks 2. Complementary Contributions From Intentionality to Consciousness: Searle Degrees of Consciousness: Crosby Further Clarifications: Helminiak The Affective Side: Morelli Concluding Remarks 3. Accounts of Mystical Consciousness Forman on Pure Consciousness Events The Realm of Transcendence According to Lonergan Moore on the ""How"" of Consciousness Price on Bare Consciousness Granfield on the Mystical Difference Concluding Remarks Part II. Three Classics 4. Plotinus: Consciousness beyond Consciousness A Grand Worldview Intellect's Share in the Good Ordinary Consciousness What Happens beyond Consciousness? No Blackout and Yet No Self-Consciousness Ecstasy, or Enstasy? Concluding Remarks 5. Eckhart: When Human Consciousness Becomes Divine Consciousness The Emptiness of the Human Intellect No Awareness Nothingness A Detached Love without a Why Is the Soul Equated with God? The Soul's Breakthrough to the Godhead Concluding Remarks 6. Schleiermacher: Consciousness as Feeling Feeling Prereflective and Reflective Consciousness Absolute Dependence Three Kinds of Consciousness Concluding Remarks Part III. A Dialogue with Zen Philosophy 7. Western Views of the Self Arguing against the Self Arguing for the Self Transcending the Self Concluding Remarks 8. Japanese Views of the Self Suzuki Nishitani Concluding Remarks 9. Some Western Views of Nothingness Plotinus and Eckhart Heidegger Nishitani Interpreter of Plotinus, Eckhart, and Heidegger Concluding Remarks 10. Japanese Views of Nothingness Nishitani's Approach to Nihilism Nishitani's Characterization of ""Absolute Nothingness"" Hisamatsu's Characterization of ""Oriental Nothingness"" Concluding Remarks Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index"

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Louis Roy, O.P. is Professor of Theology at Boston College. He is the author of Self-Actualization and the Radical Gospel and Transcendent Experiences: Phenomenology and Critique.

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