[MD] Pragmatism and Philosophical Mysticism

[David Thomas]

DMB
> I'm in the process of trying to make a case for philosophical mysticism
> within the confines of academic philosophy and so those two issues are all of
> a piece for me. 
> 
Of course you are probably aware that this has already been done at least
once in recent times though not necessarily from an atheistic Quality
perspective. 

http://www.douglas.bc.ca/programs/philosophy/faculty/angel/enlight.html

Enlightenment East and West
by Leonard Angel
Suny Press 1994

This book shows that mysticism is incomplete without scientific rationalism,
and that our current social and political projects cannot be completed
without assimilating the values and practices of mysticism.

It develops a comprehensive ethical framework whose vocabulary will be
immediately recognizable to people of all cultures, and which permits
fruitful dialogue to take place between people no matter how divergent their
backgrounds and values. It then develops a novel theory of mystical
experiential types, and uses that theory to show that mystical experience is
of fundamental importance for the philosophy of mind and value theory.

The book also suggests a new view of the relationship between religious life
and ethical life, mystical practice and social process, science and
mysticism, and of the directions of history.

Dave

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