A Peircean Reimagining of Thomas Moore's Spirituality

Pragmatic Soul

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A Peircean Reimagining of Thomas Moore's Spirituality

Pragmatic Soul

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Thomas Moore's psycho-spirituality offers many practical insights for people to cultivate their soulfulness. Underlying his program is the internal dichotomy between imaginal soul and intellectualizing spirit. Moore prioritizes soul and privileges its mystical worldview, which can lead to exaggerating introspectiveness and difficulty bridging a world of imagination with a world of fact. This book devises a pragmatic model of spirituality to serve as an alternative to Moore's Platonically inspired soul program. This model draws from Moore's vibrant character of soul and redirects it toward a critical social dialogue, scientific inquiry, and elevated political participation. Drawing from the Pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, this book uses his famous Three Categories and Modes of Inference to reinterpret Moore's concepts of soul and spirit. Peirce's metaphysical categories situate soul in distinct relationship with the world, while the epistemological modes guide spirit to educate soul through experience. The concluding tripartite model is called a soulful anthropology, a nascent foundation for a 21st-century American theological anthropology dedicated to the needs and charisms of today's culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Thomas Moore, USA
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Thomas Moore's Concept of Soul
Chapter 2: From the Shadow of Plato
Chapter 3: Peirce and His Pragmatism
Chapter 4: A Peircean Analysis of Moore's Spirituality
Chapter 5: A Pragmatic Paradigm for Soul
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 04 Sep 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 154
ISBN 9781666948004
Imprint T&T Clark
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Nathan Garcia

Nathan Garcia is Assistant Professor of Theology a…

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