The Transformative Philosophical Dialogue: From Classical Dialogues to Jiddu Krishnamurti's Method (Hardcover, 2023)

Chapter 1 IntroductionThe dialogical disposition of Krishnamurti's workHadot and the classical philosophical dialogueUnderstanding Krishnamurti through the Hadotian lensThe Krishnamurti dialogue and multicultural philosophyThe journey ahead
Part I: The classical philosophical dialogue?
Chapter 2 'Know thyself': Hadot and the conception of transformative philosophyThe 'organized totality' of classical philosophyTransformative philosophyThe communal dimension of transformative philosophySages or philosophers??
Chapter 3 'You have dispelled my doubts and delusions': Dialogue in classical India and classical Greece??The dialogical dimension of Indian philosophiesThe conversational nature of Greek philosophyThe beginnings of the transformative dialogue
Chapter 4 'When people are questioned, and the questions are well put': Transformative dialogue in the Upanisads and in Plato?Dialogue as transformationThe teacher as a midwifeThe two types of transformation
Chapter 5 Dialogues of life and death: Transformative dialogue in Plato's Phaedo and in the Ka hopanisad??Death as an opportunitySoul-liberation in the Phaedo'Know thyself to be pure and immortal!'Where mysticism diverges from transformative philosophyComplete and incomplete endings
Part II: The Krishnamurti dialogue
Chapter 6 'We are inquiring together': The dialogical nature of Jiddu Krishnamurti's workKrishnamurti as a rebelThe awakening of intelligenceKrishnamurti's teachings as a living praxis
Chapter 7 'Questions to which there are no answers': The method behind the Krishnamurti dialogueThe birth of a new methodFirst dialogue analysisSecond dialogue analysisOn Krishnamurti's question and negation
Chapter 8 'The thunder of insight': The final destination of Krishnamurti's dialogueFirst stage: The methodSecond stage: The preparatory stageThird stage: The shift of insightFourth stage: The ultimate state
Chapter 9 'Come and join me': Krishnamurti in dialogue with scholarsKrishnamurti and the life of the mindMurdoch-Krishnamurti: Trying to 'build up structures'Needleman-Krishnamurti: Looking beyond the self's barbed-wire fenceUnderstanding Krishnamurti
Part III: Krishnamurti and the classical philosophical dialogue?
Chapter 10 Socrates, k an, Krishnamurti: Questions as a spiritual exerciseSocrates: Refutation as cleansingK an: Rooting out the entire mindKrishnamurti: The answer is in the question
Chapter 11 Nagarjuna, Sankara, Krishnamurti: Negation as a spiritual exerciseNagarjuna: The relinquishing of all viewsSankara: atman is left unnegatedKrishnamurti: The denial of knowledge
Chapter 12 Conclusions and ImplicationsMain conclusionsTransformative philosophy or mysticism?Implementing the Krishnamurti dialogue
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