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Higher Humanism

A Neotranscendental Philosophy of Life

by Ash Gobar (Author)
©2017 Monographs XIV, 172 Pages

Summary

The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations, drawn from the higher heritage of humanity, revive values long forgotten. Ash Gobar re-argues the great argument for the impact of the "philosophy of life" upon the "quality of life." This is a timely work: the call of a modern philosopher to awaken the conscience of humanity from its existential vertigo.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE Human Psyche as an Evolving Being
  • 1 The Dawn of Human Conscience
  • 2 Mythology as Mirror of Conscience
  • 3 Psyche: The Ψ-Dimension as the Fifth Dimension in the Kosmos
  • PART TWO Historical Illustrations of the Leitmotif of Higher Humanism
  • 4 Greek Visions of Higher Humanism
  • Areté as the Ideal of Socrates
  • Plato’s Vision of Paideia
  • Humane Face of the Gods and Goddesses of Greece
  • 5 Renaissance Visions of Higher Humanism
  • Renaissance Humanism Revisited
  • A Metaphysical View of Personal Destiny: Avicenna
  • Spiritual Humanism: Dante Alighieri
  • Brotherhood of Mankind: Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • The Netherside of the Renaissance: A View of Lower Humanism
  • 6 Envisioning of Higher Humanism in German Enlightenment
  • Weimar as the Center of Enlightenment
  • The Ideal of the Highest Good in Human Life: Immanuel Kant
  • Aesthetic Education of Mankind: Friedrich Schiller
  • Aesthetic Humanism: Wolfgang Goethe
  • Humane Heritage of European Enlightenment
  • 7 Envisioning of Higher Humanism in American Enlightenment
  • Transcendental Humanism of Emerson
  • Pragmatic Power of Human Ideals: William James
  • Moral Humanism as the Precondition of the Good Life: A. H. Maslow and D. L. Norton
  • PART THREE Transvaluation of Modernity
  • 8 Philosophical Challenge to Modern Culture: Nietzsche and Heidegger
  • Nietzsche’s Call for Human Transcendence
  • Heidegger’s Call for Authentic Humanism
  • Götterdämmerung
  • 9 Eclipse of Modern Civilization
  • An Egregious Scenario
  • Critique of the Ideology of Modernist Humanism
  • Moral Malaise of Modern Culture
  • Cracked Mirror of Modern Literature
  • Overcoming Neosophistry in Contemporary Philosophy
  • 10 Toward a Neotranscendental Perspective: The Question of the Ground and the Horizon of Human Existence
  • The Meaning and Import of Higher Humanism
  • Critical Role of Weltanschauung
  • Philosophy as Mega-Art of Life
  • Epilogue
  • Index
  • Series index

Ash Gobar

Higher Humanism

A Neotranscendental Philosophy of Life

About the author

Ash Gobar is a transcendental thinker with an original turn. His early book, Philosophic Foundations of Genetic/Gestalt Psychology (1968), advanced the psychological perspective against the physicalist perspective. His later book, Philosophy as Higher Enlightenment (1994), presented dialectical paradigms toward a transcendental worldview. And now Higher Humanism (2017) advances a neotranscendental philosophy of life wherein the ideal of higher humanism provides an attunement toward moral metamotivation and cultural renaissance in consequence.

About the book

The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of “bourgeois humanism” provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations, drawn from the higher heritage of humanity, revive values long forgotten. Ash Gobar re-argues the great argument for the impact of the “philosophy of life” upon the “quality of life.” This is a timely work: the call of a modern philosopher to awaken the conscience of humanity from its existential vertigo.

“Ash Gobar’s work represents insight, wisdom, and a deep measure of understanding not often encountered in American letters.”

—Harry M. Caudill, Author of Darkness at Dawn and Night Comes to the Cumberland

“The ideal of higher humanism that Ash Gobar advances also represents our ideal for the future of mankind in this trouble-laden world.”

—Hermann Wein, Author of Philosophie als Erfahrungswissenschaft

This eBook can be cited

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Details

Pages
XIV, 172
Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9781433140518
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433140525
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433140532
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433140501
DOI
10.3726/b10748
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (July)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2017. XIV, 172 pp.

Biographical notes

Ash Gobar (Author)

Ash Gobar is a transcendental thinker with an original turn. His early book, Philosophic Foundations of Genetic/Gestalt Psychology (1968), advanced the psychological perspective against the physicalist perspective. His later book, Philosophy as Higher Enlightenment (1994), presented dialectical paradigms toward a transcendental worldview. And now Higher Humanism (2017) advances a neotranscendental philosophy of life wherein the ideal of higher humanism provides an attunement toward moral metamotivation and cultural renaissance in consequence.

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