On habit /
In this thought-provoking book Clare Carlisle examines habit from a philosophical standpoint. Beginning with a lucid appraisal of habit's philosophical history she suggests that both receptivity and resistance to change are basic principles of habit-formation. Carlisle shows how the philosophy...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2014
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014 London : 2014 New York : 2014 |
| Series: | Thinking in action
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| Summary: | In this thought-provoking book Clare Carlisle examines habit from a philosophical standpoint. Beginning with a lucid appraisal of habit's philosophical history she suggests that both receptivity and resistance to change are basic principles of habit-formation. Carlisle shows how the philosophy of habit not only anticipates the discoveries of recent neuroscience but illuminates their ethical significance. She asks whether habit is a reliable form of knowledge by examining the contrasting interpretations of habitual thinking offered by Spinoza and Hume. She then turns to the role of habit in the good life, tracing Aristotle's legacy through the ideas of Joseph Butler, Hegel, and Félix Ravaisson, and assessing the ambivalent attitudes to habit expressed by Nietzsche and Proust. She argues that a distinction between habit and practice helps to clarify this ambivalence, particularly in the context of habit and religion, where she examines both the theology of habit and the repititions of religious life. She concludes by considering how philosophy itself is a practice of learning to live well with habit. -- from back cover In this thought-provoking book Clare Carlisle examines habit from a philosophical standpoint. Beginning with a lucid appraisal of habit's philosophical history she suggests that both receptivity and resistance to change are basic principles of habit-formation. Carlisle shows how the philosophy of habit not only anticipates the discoveries of recent neuroscience but illuminates their ethical significance. She asks whether habit is a reliable form of knowledge by examining the contrasting interpretations of habitual thinking offered by Spinoza and Hume. She then turns to the role of habit in the good life, tracing Aristotle's legacy through the ideas of Joseph Butler, Hegel, and Félix Ravaisson, and assessing the ambivalent attitudes to habit expressed by Nietzsche and Proust. She argues that a distinction between habit and practice helps to clarify this ambivalence, particularly in the context of habit and religion, where she examines both the theology of habit and the repititions of religious life. She concludes by considering how philosophy itself is a practice of learning to live well with habit. -- from back cover |
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| Item Description: | Includes index This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xii, 154 pages ; 20 cm xii, 154 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0203816943 0415619130 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415619130 0415619149 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415619149 1136725695 9780203816943 9780415619134 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415619134 9780415619141 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415619141 9781136725692 |