Gifts without Givers: Secular Spirituality and Metaphorical Cognition

The option of being ‘spiritual but not religious' deserves much more philosophical attention. That is the aim here, taking the work of Robert Solomon as a starting point, with focus on the particular issues around viewing life as gift. This requires analysis of ‘existential gratitude' to s...

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Main Author: Chastain, Drew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2017]
In: Sophia
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 631-647
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AG Religious life; material religion
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Gratitude
B Spirituality
B Poison
B Cognition
B Metaphor
B Secularism
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