Why Study Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise?

Last updated on: January 27, 2015 at 2:29 pm by Artur Rosman

Why Study Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise? 2015-01-27T14:29:21-07:00 Artur Rosman

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Cogito, Ergo Artur: Rodin’s Thinker is a false image of philosophy as a lonely introspective enterprise.

As great as John Milbank is, there are plenty of other great things going on in Nottingham at the Centre of Theology and Philosophy.

One of them is the “Why study?” series of interviews conducted by Tom O’Loughlin they post periodically to youtube.

As it happens, one of their researchers, Philip Goodchild (best known for his tomes on Capitalism and Religion and the Theology of Money) recently published a book On Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise the topic of my recent posts on Socrates and Pascal.

See the video below for a new, yet ancient, way of practicing philosophy. This is not the ivory tower things-that-make-you-go-“hmmm…” view of philosophy most of us are used to, instead your butt is on the line if you want to philosophize like the ancients.

For more books on engaged philosophy like this see my TOP10 Philosophy Book List. I suppose if you’re doing philosophy right then you might not need the books, or to read this blog, hmm . . .

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