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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"spiritual exercise"”.
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Regarding Descartes' meditations as meditational
… Meditations" with that of religious devotional exercises, also known as meditations, that were prevalent during the early part of the seventeenth century. Although commentators are fairly equally divided on whether the stylistic devices employed by Descartes are philosophically important, there …
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Graceful Nothings: The Art of Beginning in Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology
… beginning is a kenotic art executed through the spiritual exercise of faculties such as anxiety and silence. Such practices return the human being to a state of graceful nothing, which Kierkegaard names “primitivity”. From this state, the human being may repeatedly (re-)begin her becoming. This …