Author : Theodore De Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004453881
This volume, written by one of the leading scholars on Emmanuel Levinas, deals with Levinas' conception of Transcendence, Prophecy and Philosophy. Among the issues discussed in this volume are ontology and eschatology, Judaism and Hellenism, the relationship between transcendental and dialogical thought, the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Patriarchs. Theodore de Boer is Emeritus Professor of systematic philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Author : Theodorus de Boer
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
This volume, written by one of the leading scholars on Emmanuel Levinas, deals with Levinas' conception of Transcendence, Prophecy and Philosophy. Among the issues discussed in this volume are ontology and eschatology, Judaism and Hellenism, the relationship between transcendental and dialogical thought, the God of the Philosophers and the God of the Patriarchs. Theodore de Boer is Emeritus Professor of systematic philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Author : Peter Øhrstrøm
Publisher : Aalborg Universitetsforlag
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 31,81 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788773076446
Rationality is widely regarded as being at odds with the very concepts of metaphysics and transcendence. Yet it is easy to forget that the thinkers who pioneered rationality and the scientific method did not subscribe to this view. For instance, Aristotle described God as the source of reason in "Eudemian Ethics", and Newton and Galileo both believed that our ability to investigate the world scientifically has a divine origin. The eight essays in this volume examine a variety of intellectual approaches to the Christian faith, addressing a number of philosophical questions en route: Are some worldviews more rational than others? What limits are there to the kinds of queries we can answer through reasoning and scientific inquiry? What role can rationality play in the study of time and reality? How can we resolve questions about transcendence and metaphysics? The book concludes with the transcript of a public debate on whether theism is more rational than atheism. Not only does it serve as a useful reminder that religion and reason can inhabit the same discourse, but the lack of a clear winner also demonstrates the importance of trying to wrestle with such perennial questions. Anyone who is exploring the arguments for Christianity's rational basis, whether out of academic, cultural or personal interest, should find in this volume much food for thought.
Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791425091
This book explains how to read Plato, emphasizing the philosophic importance of the dramatic aspects of the dialogues, and showing that Plato is an ironic thinker and that his irony is deeply rooted in his philosophy.
Author : Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520943651
This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship—in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.
Author : Anne E. Inman
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Anne Inman critiques modern attempts to explain the knowability of God and points the way toward a religious epistemology that avoids their pitfalls.
Author : Matthew Burch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1786609592
The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics argue that Heidegger’s philosophy effectively severs the tie between reason and normativity, leaving anyone who adheres to his position without recourse to justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars that challenges this view by exploring new ways to understand Heidegger’s approach to the relationship between reason, normativity, and the philosophical methodology that gives us access to these issues. The volume points to Heidegger’s novel approach to reason understood in terms of what he calls Dasein’s ‘transcendence’—the ability to occupy the world as a space of normatively structured meanings in which we navigate our striving to be. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of this new and innovative take on Heidegger’s philosophy, this collection considers the possibility that he does not sever but rather reconceives the relation between reason and normativity.
Author : Jennifer A. Frey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429891164
Recent research in the humanities and social sciences suggests that individuals who understand themselves as belonging to something greater than the self—a family, community, or religious or spiritual group—often feel happier, have a deeper sense of purpose or meaning in their lives, and have overall better life outcomes than those who do not. Some positive and personality psychologists have labeled this location of the self within a broader perspective "self-transcendence." This book presents and integrates new, interdisciplinary research into virtue, happiness, and the meaning of life by re-orienting these discussions around the concept of self-transcendence. The essays are organized around three broad themes connected to self-transcendence. First, they investigate how self-transcendence helps us to understand aspects of the moral life as it is studied within psychology, including the development of wisdom, the practice of moral praise, and psychological well-being. Second, they explore how self-transcendence is linked to virtue in different religious and spiritual traditions including Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, and Confucianism. Finally, they ask how self-transcendence can help us theorize about Aristotelean and Thomist conceptions of virtue, like hope and piety, and how this helps us to re-conceptualize happiness and meaning in life.
Author : Ramon Harvey
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic S
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474451659
Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the Māturīdī school, into lively dialogue with modern thought to show that a contemporary Muslim philosophical theology (kalām jadīd) can provide original and constructive answers to perennial theological questions.
Author : Margaret S. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1134306717
Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world. Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief becomes subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion. This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief. It uniquely demonstrates that the three pillars of critical realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion as to any other beliefs or theories. The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.
