Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis. David L. Goicoechea

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СКАЧАТЬ And it Manifests Itself Through Lovers

      III.8 The Bhakti Movement and Bhakti Literature

      III.8.1 All the Arts of India Express Bhakti

      III.8.2 But Singh Concentrates Especially on Literature

      III.8.3 And Brings out Bhakti as the One in the Many

      III.8.4 Singh Quotes Krishna Sharma to Bring out Differences

      III.8.5 And Yet he Must be Critical of Even Her

      III.8.6 What is the Sikh View about Bhakti?

      III.8.7 Bhakti is the Prime Mover of Art in India

      III.8.8 Chandulal and Raj Singh on Bhakti

      III.8.9 From Bhakti and the Caste System to Agape

      III.9 Bhakti and the History of Western Agape

      III.9.1 Jesus, Krishna and the Caste System

      III.9.2 Augustine, the Caritas Synthesis and Serving Others

      III.9.3 Benedict and Bringing Agriculture to Europe

      III.9.4 Dominic and Serving the City’s Poor

      III.9.5 Francis and Agape for all God’s Creatures

      III.9.6 Ignatius Loyola and Modern Agape

      III.9.7 The Agape of St. Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross

      III.9.8 Mother Teresa’s Agape for the Poor of Calcutta.

      III.9.9 The Brock Philosophy Department Learns from all the Others

      IV. Which Science Cannot Know

      IV. 7 Missionary Love and the Bataillean Simulachra

      (From Bataille to Klossowski)

      Successfully Proclaiming the Gospel

      to Every Creature with a Communication

      that Fails and the Simulachra of the Gita

      IV.7.1 Communicating the Movements of Pathos with Simulachra.

      IV.7.2 Which are Not Ideas but like Ideas

      IV.7.3 Which can Poetically Express the Agony and the Ecstasy

      IV.7.4 And the Carefree Abandon that Brings One to Laughter

      IV.7.5 So that We Might Die with Laughter.

      IV.7.6 And Express our Laughter Until we Cry

      IV.7.7 Over an Expenditure Tending towards Pure Loss

      IV.7.8 Bataille is a Missionary Speaking in Poetic Simulachra

      IV.7.9 That Others Might become Sovereign Suffering

      IV.8 Purgatorial Love and Battaillean Violence

      (From Bataille to Derrida)

      Mourning the Guilt of Decisions

      Made over the Abyss of Indecidability

      For Justice must be Done

      in this Life or the Next

      IV.8.1 The Instant of decision is Madness (Kierkegaard)

      IV.8.2 The Decision to Give the Pure Gift

      IV.8.3 And Move from a Restricted to a General Economy

      IV.8.4 On to the Move from Hegel to Nietzsche

      IV.8.5 And from Hegel’s Lordship to Bataille’s Sovereignty

      IV.8.6 And from Hegelian Continuity to the Simulacrum

      IV.8.7 Brings us from Desoeuvrement to Dissemination

      IV.8.8 And from Dramatization to Difference

      IV.8.9 For in doubling Lordship Sovereignty is Dialectical

      IV.9 Loving Love and the Bataillean Sacrifice

      (From Bataille to Boldt)

      The New Mystical Theology’s,

      Nine Philosophical Implications

      Mark’s Agape and its Nine Implications

      The Gita’s Bhakti and its Nine Implications

      IV.9.1 Bataille’s New Mystical Theology

      IV.9.2 Implies a New Ethics of Altruistic Love

      IV.9.3 And a New Economy of Pure Giving

      IV.9.4 And a New Politics of the Human Family

      IV.9.5 And a New Metaphysics of Excess

      IV.9.6 And a New Epistemology of Nominalism

      IV.9.7 And a New Logic of Mixed Opposites

      IV.9.8 And a New Psychology of Embodied Spirit

      IV.9.9 And a New Poetics

      Introduction

      As we continue these millennial meditations

      on two thousand years of agape

      we now have the opportunity to see how

      agape and bhakti do and can complement each other.

      The four-thousand-year-old history

      of mysticism and its kind of love in India

      has been a great gift for the entire family of man.

      As I made my transition from seminary life

      at Mt. Angel and St. Thomas Seminary in Seattle

      to the Jesuits of Loyola of Chicago

      and the Franciscan Sisters and students of Joliet, Illinois,

      I was greatly helped in coming to understand

      the efforts of meditation and the gifts of contemplation

      by Jane Sheldon during the first love of that Sun Valley summer

      to the sublimation of erotic inspiration.

      I was advised to leave the seminary and then

      the Jesuits opened me to all of philosophy.

      Mark’s good news is the story of Jesus’ agape

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