Michael Mcghee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3973769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mcghee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcghee |
| SIGNATURE | MCGHEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion
Perspectives: Marmalade Stains on the Breakfast Table
One of the attractions of Buddhism for former theists is the salience of its images of liberation – the serenity of the Buddha figure, the representation of self-possession and calm; a compassion founded in some kind of knowledge unavailable to the rest of us. It is a dangerous attraction, because it can prompt a facile imitation, a too-precipitate and self-regarding appropriation of a demeanour that, if it is a genuine possibility, comes only af…
Beyond the Walls: An Evaluation of a Pre-Release Planning (PReP) Programme for Sentenced Mentally Disordered Offenders
Background: Prison mental health services have tended to focus on improving the quality of care provided to mentally disordered offenders at the initial point of contact with the prison system and within the prison environment itself. When these individuals reach the end of their sentence and return to the community, there is an increased risk of morbidity, mortality, homelessness and re-imprisonment. New models of care have been developed to min…
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns: Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot
Philosophy As a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns - Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot
Reasonable Faith – By John Haldane
Making spirits attentive: Moral-and-spiritual development
The Roots of Metaphor: A Multidisciplinary Study in Aesthetics
1University of Liverpool The Roots of Metaphor: A Multidisciplinary Study in Aesthetics NormanKreitman Ashgate 1999205£45.00
Greeks, Galatians and Western Buddhists: Christianity, Buddhism and ‘Social Responsibility’
Moral philosophy and ‘Buddhist Ethics’
(2001). Moral philosophy and ‘Buddhist Ethics’. Contemporary Buddhism: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3-17
Brian R. Clack Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion . (London and Basingstoke: (Macmillan, 1999). Pp. 200
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Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice
The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book d…
A Practical and Intellectual Agenda
Transformations of mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice
Drawing From Life: Representing a Spiritual Tradition
In the fourteenth century choir stalls of Chester Cathedral there is a wood carving of an elephant, or at least a fourteenth century woodcarver's attempt to represent one on the basis of hearsay and description. The beast has a trunk, but otherwise looks a lot like a horse, with a heavy body, or heavy for a horse. The ears are large, but only by the standards of horses, and it has a horse's legs and hooves. Acquaintance with real elephants would …
After Dover Beach: Arnold's Recast Religion
The Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold is not the first figure to spring to mind in the context of global religious dialogue. But his mature religious writing, particularly his now neglected Literature and Dogma of 1873, was one of the most sensitive and intelligent responses to the general spirit of positivism and the Death of God. Since secularisation is now seeping into more than one tradition, and is perceived as the dark side of the We…
The Locations of the Soul
Belief in life after death is implicated, for the typical ‘Wittgensteinian’, with Cartesian dualism, and the latter seen to entail a private inner subject that cannot survive the anti-private language argument. But Descartes does not really suffer from this defect and belief in life after death is not merely a product of ‘confused’ Cartesian metaphysics. Descartes is presented as an intellectual analogue of the formation of the concept of ‘soul’ …
The Turn Towards Buddhism
The paper draws on the Heideggerian distinction between Bildung and Besinnung to locate a discussion of theological strategies in the face of Nietzsche's pronouncement that God is dead, and sketches what should be an epistemologically vigilant (and thus properly sceptical) Buddhist response to that pronouncement. The theological options that are mentioned or discussed include naive and critical theological realism, anti-realism and a nontheistic …
Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: An Essay on the Nature of Indian Philosophical Thinking
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: an Essay on the Nature of Indian Philosophical Thinking. By Jitendra Nath Mohanty. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. 306. Price £37.50.) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 377–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/221…
Individual Buddhists
There is a short section of Peter Harvey's recent book on Buddhism in which he offers a thumbnail sketch of Buddhist groups in the United Kingdom. Among the groups he describes is the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, and I declare an interest, as one of its members. I have no particular quarrel with the description of FWBO activities, but there is a sting in the tail, which is, I think, a point of some conceptual interest, which others have…
Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Good and Evil: an Absolute Conception. By Raimond Gaita. (London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. ix + 340. Price £35.00.) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 110–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219949 Published: 01 January 1993
Philosophy, Religion and the Spiritual Life
An alternative agenda for the philosophy of religion emerges from this interdisciplinary collection. Going outside the traditional concerns of natural theology, the distinguished contributors to this volume explore such topics as the nature of selfhood and its images in the ancient, the medieval and the modern world; the role of philosophy as a route to wisdom; non-conceptual awareness; and the nature of love and its relation to attention. Discus…
A Fat Worm of Error
Journal Article A FAT WORM OF ERROR? Get access Michael McGhee Michael McGhee Department of Philosophy, University of LiverpoolModern Languages Building, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 222–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.3.222 Published: 01 June 1991
In Praise of Mindfulness
I have meditated regularly, following simple Buddhist procedures, for more than ten years, and that seems just about long enough for me to start to offer some preliminary account of it, despite the limitations of my progress and experience, and the difficulty of describing the more intimate and less explored reaches of the mind. I think I have learned enough to say that through prolonged spiritual practice one arrives at the springs of action and…
Paradox and Identity in Theology
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Paradox and Identity in Theology. By R. T. Herbert. ( Cornell U.P., 1979. Pp. 195. Price $16.00) M. J. Mcghee M. J. Mcghee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 126, January 1982, Pages 90–91, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219008 Published: 01 January 1982
A Fat Worm of Error
Journal Article A FAT WORM OF ERROR? Get access Michael McGhee Michael McGhee Department of Philosophy, University of LiverpoolModern Languages Building, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 222–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.3.222 Published: 01 June 1991
Understanding Other Persons
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Understanding Other Persons. Edited by Theodore Mischel. (Oxford: Basil Blaokwell. 1974. Pp. xv + 266. Price £4.00) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 99, April 1975, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217643 Published: 01 April 1975
Rationality and the Social Sciences
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Rationality and the Social Sciences. Edited by S. I. Benn and G. W. Mortimore. ( Koutledge & Kegan Paul. 1976. Pp. x+416. Price §8.50M) Michael J. Mcghee Michael J. Mcghee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 109, October 1977, Pages 380–382, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218970 Published: 01 October 1977
The Leap of Reason
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Leap of Reason. By Don Cupitt. ( Sheldon Press. 1976. Pp. 145. £4.50) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 111, April 1978, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219372 Published: 01 April 1978
Paradox and Identity in Theology
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Paradox and Identity in Theology. By R. T. Herbert. ( Cornell U.P., 1979. Pp. 195. Price $16.00) M. J. Mcghee M. J. Mcghee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 126, January 1982, Pages 90–91, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219008 Published: 01 January 1982
In Praise of Mindfulness
I have meditated regularly, following simple Buddhist procedures, for more than ten years, and that seems just about long enough for me to start to offer some preliminary account of it, despite the limitations of my progress and experience, and the difficulty of describing the more intimate and less explored reaches of the mind. I think I have learned enough to say that through prolonged spiritual practice one arrives at the springs of action and…
A Fat Worm of Error
Journal Article A FAT WORM OF ERROR? Get access Michael McGhee Michael McGhee Department of Philosophy, University of LiverpoolModern Languages Building, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 222–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.3.222 Published: 01 June 1991
Philosophy, Religion and the Spiritual Life
An alternative agenda for the philosophy of religion emerges from this interdisciplinary collection. Going outside the traditional concerns of natural theology, the distinguished contributors to this volume explore such topics as the nature of selfhood and its images in the ancient, the medieval and the modern world; the role of philosophy as a route to wisdom; non-conceptual awareness; and the nature of love and its relation to attention. Discus…
Individual Buddhists
There is a short section of Peter Harvey's recent book on Buddhism in which he offers a thumbnail sketch of Buddhist groups in the United Kingdom. Among the groups he describes is the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, and I declare an interest, as one of its members. I have no particular quarrel with the description of FWBO activities, but there is a sting in the tail, which is, I think, a point of some conceptual interest, which others have…
Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Good and Evil: an Absolute Conception. By Raimond Gaita. (London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. ix + 340. Price £35.00.) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 110–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219949 Published: 01 January 1993
Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: An Essay on the Nature of Indian Philosophical Thinking
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: an Essay on the Nature of Indian Philosophical Thinking. By Jitendra Nath Mohanty. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. 306. Price £37.50.) Michael McGhee Michael McGhee University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 377–379, https://doi.org/10.2307/221…
The Turn Towards Buddhism
The paper draws on the Heideggerian distinction between Bildung and Besinnung to locate a discussion of theological strategies in the face of Nietzsche's pronouncement that God is dead, and sketches what should be an epistemologically vigilant (and thus properly sceptical) Buddhist response to that pronouncement. The theological options that are mentioned or discussed include naive and critical theological realism, anti-realism and a nontheistic …
The Locations of the Soul
Belief in life after death is implicated, for the typical ‘Wittgensteinian’, with Cartesian dualism, and the latter seen to entail a private inner subject that cannot survive the anti-private language argument. But Descartes does not really suffer from this defect and belief in life after death is not merely a product of ‘confused’ Cartesian metaphysics. Descartes is presented as an intellectual analogue of the formation of the concept of ‘soul’ …
After Dover Beach: Arnold's Recast Religion
The Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold is not the first figure to spring to mind in the context of global religious dialogue. But his mature religious writing, particularly his now neglected Literature and Dogma of 1873, was one of the most sensitive and intelligent responses to the general spirit of positivism and the Death of God. Since secularisation is now seeping into more than one tradition, and is perceived as the dark side of the We…
Drawing From Life: Representing a Spiritual Tradition
In the fourteenth century choir stalls of Chester Cathedral there is a wood carving of an elephant, or at least a fourteenth century woodcarver's attempt to represent one on the basis of hearsay and description. The beast has a trunk, but otherwise looks a lot like a horse, with a heavy body, or heavy for a horse. The ears are large, but only by the standards of horses, and it has a horse's legs and hooves. Acquaintance with real elephants would …
Brian R. Clack Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion . (London and Basingstoke: (Macmillan, 1999). Pp. 200
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Transformations of Mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice
The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as conditions for the emergence and cessation of contending states of mind which influence perception and action. The philosopher thus becomes a kind of cartographer of a shifting interior landscape. This underlying perspective explains the personal nature of the writing and its mixing of genres. The book d…
A Practical and Intellectual Agenda
Transformations of mind: Philosophy as Spiritual Practice
Moral philosophy and ‘Buddhist Ethics’
(2001). Moral philosophy and ‘Buddhist Ethics’. Contemporary Buddhism: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 3-17
Greeks, Galatians and Western Buddhists: Christianity, Buddhism and ‘Social Responsibility’
The Roots of Metaphor: A Multidisciplinary Study in Aesthetics
1University of Liverpool The Roots of Metaphor: A Multidisciplinary Study in Aesthetics NormanKreitman Ashgate 1999205£45.00
Making spirits attentive: Moral-and-spiritual development
Reasonable Faith – By John Haldane
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns: Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot
Philosophy As a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns - Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot
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