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SCHREIBER, Dudley. Awakening - Transformation, agency and virtue from three contemporary philosophical inspirations: Bhaskar, Segal and Slote. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2015, vol.71, n.1, pp.01-10. ISSN 2072-8050.  https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i1.2974.

For some, 'transformation' is the new non-reductive and non-normative 'development', attracting attention from interdisciplinary array, but of particular theoretical and practical interest to Spirituality scholars. In philosophical context, transformation theory has suffered greatly from 'agency-structure' dualism and suspension of ontology in body-mind dualism and rationalist virtue controversy. Drawing on the work of Bhaskar, Segal and Slote, a renegotiated and more meaningful sense of transformation emerges from their cumulative analytical and conceptual enrichment. In the complexity of possible relations between self, self-concept and society, lies the traditionally neglected transformative middle of sui-generis human depth. In redress, arguably, Bhaskar's meta-philosophy accommodates Segal's experiential depth analysis and Slote's understanding of empathy and receptivity as valuable insights for 'awakening' to transformative process.

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