My Life Story: Physical and Metaphysical - Brossura

Novak, Richey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1420859358 ISBN 13: 9781420859355

Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2005

Riassunto

My Life's Story: Physical and Metaphysical uses an autobiographical framework to present the intellectual and spiritual development of Dr. Richey Novak, a lifelong searcher and questioner. Born and raised in Texas, he grows up during World War II, travels around the world in the US Navy, becomes educated in the US and abroad with help of the GI Bill, studies philosophy and foreign cultures, and spends his professional life in academia. Outgrowing the rigid puritanical version of Christianity of his youth, he develops his own view of reality based on science and a pragmatic approach to life. Through four decades of teaching in the US, Germany, Iran, and Brazil, he learns that people everywhere struggle with similar problems and share the same need for meaning and purpose in life. We all seek answers and solutions more relevant to the complex modern world than the traditional religious interpretations offer. He sees a new worldview rapidly emerging worldwide, fueled by intense global trade and massive international travel. Incorporating the best aspects of religious ethics while avoiding the provincial dogmas and limitations of most religions, this new view of secular humanism offers mankind's best and most realistic hope for the future. Dr. Novak presents his views on life, religion, sex, family, education, etc. in the hope that they may be of help to other seekers and searchers struggling with these universal questions and concerns.

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L'autore

Richey Novak was born and raised in Texas. After military service and worldwide travels in the U.S. Navy, he studied philosophy, languages, and psychology in the United States, France, Germany, and Mexico. He received a diploma for French language and civilization after a one-year course at the University of Paris at the Sorbonne and a certificate for German language and culture after a similar one-year course at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In addition, he earned the bachelor's and master's degree in philosophy from Columbia University in New York City and the doctor's degree in German from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has taught philosophy, languages, and humanities in various colleges and universities in the U.S., Germany, Iran, and Brazil. He and his wife were until recently visiting professors of English in the master's degree program at the State University of Cear¿ in Fortaleza, Brazil. They now live in Southern California and have two sons. In addition to academic books and articles, Dr. Novak has also published a study of mysticism, The Mundane Mystic: An American Approach to Mysticism (1st Books Library, 1999) and an additional investigation into the human potential, The Call of the Cosmos: An Introduction to Pragmatic Mysticism (1stBooks Library, 2002).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: AuthorHouse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1420859358
• ISBN 13: 9781420859355
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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