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14 - Facing Truths: Ethics and the Spiritual Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

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Michael McGhee
Edited by
Michael McGhee
Michael McGhee
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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In this paper I continue an enterprise begun in earlier work (McGhee, 1988, 1989) in which I attempt to naturalize into a western philosophical context concepts that derive from the practice of Buddhist meditation. In particular I shall try to make use of the notion of samādhi (sometimes translated as ‘concentration’) and vipassanā or insight.

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Spiritual Life , pp. 372 - 402
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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