Actology

By:

Malcolm Torry

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Hardback

Series:

Actological Explorations

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Two streams run through the Western philosophical stream: one characterized by Being, beings, the unchanging, the static, and the unitary; and the other by Action, actions, the changing, the dynamic, and the diverse. The former might be represented by Parmenides, Plato, and much of what followed; the latter by Heraclitus, and by rather less of what followed. The book explores the ""Action"" stream as it wound its way through history, through Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Maurice Blondel, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, process philosophy and theology, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Boys Smith. The journey enables us to create the beginnings of an ""actology"" a way of seeing ourselves, the universe, and God in terms of actions in patterns rather than as beings that change. Such an actology offers a complete alternative narrative far more in tune with the diverse and rapidly changing world in which we live than the ontology that has shaped philosophy, theology, and much else for the past two thousand years.

Author Biography:

Malcolm Torry is a priest in the Church of England, and for thirty-four years he served full-time in South London parishes. Until recently he was director of the Citizen's Basic Income Trust, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has published a number of books on basic income--an unconditional income for every individual--and on the characteristics and management of religious and faith-based organizations. This is his first book of philosophy.

Release date Australia

July 8th, 2020

Author

Malcolm Torry

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

260

Series

Actological Explorations

Dimensions

152x229x16

ISBN-13

9781725266759

Product ID

33848668

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