Encounters in Thought: Beyond Instrumental Reason - Softcover

Kerr, Aaron K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532639163 ISBN 13: 9781532639166

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Thinking is a dynamic process resulting from practices of integration. Thought encounters in openness, wonder, receptivity, and contemplation confer upon us intellectual work that is uniquely our own. Digital patterns, however, distract us from these creative encounters. Our intellectual searching is weakened and fragmented by frenetic consumption of information. We miss out on reason’s innate pull toward integration and concrete reality. This book is an invitation to enter into openness, wonder, receptivity, and contemplation with deeper understanding and intentionality. We can do this by considering exemplars, persons who lived out the integrity of their hard-won beliefs. Each process of integration is applied also, so that practical knowledge and practice become a way into this intellectual restoration. We need deeper knowledge won in the slow orbit of encounters. Encounters in thought are precisely what each generation needs to apprehend the cosmos, nature, authority, truth, and moral action. Responsibility to this ecologic age requires a reform of reason; this book is just one attempt to convey a way toward this restoration.

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Aaron K. Kerr is associate professor of philosophy at Gannon University and chair of the philosophy department. He teaches environmental ethics and has published in the areas of the philosophy of meaning in music, the sacred, the ethics of technology, and the contemplative life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1532639163
• ISBN 13: 9781532639166
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150
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