by Robert C. Solomon · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780195312133
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«Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life» is the philosophical essay by Robert C. Solomon, published by Oxford University Press in paperback.
Is spirituality possible without believing in the supernatural or belonging to a religion? Solomon proposes a 'naturalized' spirituality, based on the thoughtful love of life: it demands engagement with the world, acceptance of tragedy and death, and transformation of the self. The book dialogues with Socrates, Nietzsche, Buddha, and Kafka.
The work originally appeared in 2002; this annotated English edition is from December 2006 and consists of 176 pages.
Recommended for readers of philosophy, spirituality, and agnosticism seeking a reflection on the meaning of life outside of dogmas.
Robert Charles Solomon was a philosopher and business ethicist, notable author, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held a named chair and taught for more than 30 years, authoring The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life (1976) and more than 45 other books and editions. Critical of the narrow focus of Anglo-American analytic philosophy, which he thought denied human nature and abdicated the important questions of life, he instead wrote analytically in response to the continental discourses of phenomenology and existentialism, on sex and love, on business ethics, and on other topics to which he brought an Aristotelian perspective on virtue ethics. He also wrote A Short History of Philosophy and others with his wife, Kathleen Higgins.
