Contemplative Aging A Way of Being in Later Life

Name: Contemplative Aging A Way of Being in Later Life
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ISBN: 9781884092992

ISBN-10: 1884092993

ISBN-13: 9781884092992

Edition: 2010

Authors: Edmund Sherman

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Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Richard Altschuler & Associates, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction



From Doing to Being


The Bearable Lightness of Being ...Retired


Doing and Being in Retirement


The Interiority of Late Life


Contemplative Being



Philosophical Aging


The Consolations of Philosophy


A Philosophical Way


The Psychological Dimension


A Natural Philosophy of Age


The Moral Dimension



The Aging Self


Remembering and Reviewing


Autobiographical Consciousness


Knowing One's Self


Becoming One's Self


Being One's Self



A Contemplative Way


The Experiential Dimension


The Question of Transcendence


The Mystical Dimension


Contemplative Happiness



Contemplative Practice


Meditation and the Art of Being


Other Meditative Practices


Practice as Process


The Telos of Practice



Imaginative Aging


The Primacy of the Image


Reflective Imagery


Time Art


Imaginative Variations



Other Dimensions of Being


Spatiality


Placefulness


Solitude


Inborn and Unborn Dimensions



Finitude


Ultimate Concerns


Symbolic Immortality


Philosophical Finitude



Beyond Being?


Gerotranscendence Revisited


Experiential Enlightenment


A New Being?


The Present and the Perennial


References


Index