Unprecedented creativity: an analysis of the metaphor of learning with the heart
Learning with the Heart is a process in which images from memory conflate with imagination and sensation to generate transpersonal awareness. Highlights of the occidental understanding of learning with the heart, embedded in poetic images, religious metaphors, ritualistic gestures, and biological in...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Marquette Univ. Press
[2016]
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 373-408 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Corbin, Henry 1903-1978
/ Learning
/ Heart
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science |
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Summary: | Learning with the Heart is a process in which images from memory conflate with imagination and sensation to generate transpersonal awareness. Highlights of the occidental understanding of learning with the heart, embedded in poetic images, religious metaphors, ritualistic gestures, and biological insights as explained by Gerald Edelman, provide a background to examine learning with the heart. Henri Corbin’s metaphor of imaginal perception, the conflation of diverse awarenesses held together and valued through the energy of the heart, can be a focus for examining learning with the heart embedded in ordinary experiences such as in the classroom, in meditation, or in conversation. Corbin’s work invites us to understand the status sui generis of the procreative heart. It has evolutionary implications through generating an unprecedented valuation of the immediate conflation of embodied memory, sensation, and imagination. |
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ISSN: | 0890-2461 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2016102562 |