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CONVERSION WORKS IBD

CASCADE BOOKS
11 / 2021
9781532688775
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Sinopsis

In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo&rsquo,s Confessions, René, Descartes&rsquo,s Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan&rsquo,s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir&rsquo,s The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a worldview and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works&rsquo, requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker&rsquo,s The Denial of Death.

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