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Imagining Soul |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul |
| Author: Charles Taliaferro |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 3,342 Words, 20,157 Characters |
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Psychotherapy can be taken on as a thoroughly secular venture, a short-term project for those of us in need of urgent behavioral repair who lack the enthusiasm, time, or funds for analysis; even more important, psychotherapy can be carried out without challenging our most fundamental priorities. Thomas Moore is one of many advocates of alternative therapy, and in Care of the Soul he outlines a rich understanding of a life lived with depth, imagination, and spirituality. His aim is the formidable one of providing a guide for living soulfully. This engaging, sometimes enigmatic book is motivated by powerful philosophical and theological ideas, and these will be the focus of this essay.
Throughout the book, beginning with the title, readers are confronted with a vocabulary that is remot...
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...racter will never change radically, although it may go through some interesting transformations." What change does occur often happens without intentional activity, and Moore notes with approval that the ancient and Renaissance approach to the soul differs from the modern idea that a person is what he makes himself. Those who are attracted to an existential outlook may not take heart at this.
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