Spirituality for the Godless
Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion

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Acknowledgements
A Shakespearean Prologue: The Voice of Cordelian Ethics
1. Introduction
2. 'A Spiritually Enlightened Individual
3. The Resources of a Much Earlier Phase of the Tradition'
4. The Distractions of Baruch Spinoza
5. Immanuel Kant: 'To Regard as Petty what we are Otherwise Anxious About'
6. Wittgenstein's Cool Temple
7. Rilke, Shakespeare… and a Little Freud
8. Concealment and Revelation
9. Mindfulness and the Form of a Philosophical Life
10. Epictetus: 'The Beginning of Philosophy' …
11. Ted Hughes: Evaporation, Translation, Translocation
12. Philosophy as an Inventive Convergence of Methods
13. Richard Norman: 'The Truths it Contains are Human Truths'
14. Perspectives: Marmalade Stains on the Breakfast Table
15. David Hume: Wanting the Natural Sentiments of Humanity
16. 'What is the Difference between Love and God's Love?'
17. 'Peace, Wild Wooddove, Shy Wings Shut'
18. 'Only a Little Snivelling Half-Wit Can Maintain That'
19. 'The World is Too Much With Us'
20. Of Self and Self, of Atman and Anatman
21. 'I am Myself Alone'
22. The Five Heaps or Skandhas
23.'We Claim that There is a Person, but we do not say that he is an Entity'
24. Birds, Frogs and Tintern Abbey
25. Human Resources and Hubris
References
Index.

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