Divine Teaching and the Way of the World
A Defense of Revealed Religion
(Sprache: Englisch)
Samuel Fleischacker offers a defense of 'revealed religion' - religions that regard a certain text or teaching as wholly authoritative over one's life. By reconciling it with secular cognitive and moral practices that allow people to work together...
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Samuel Fleischacker offers a defense of 'revealed religion' - religions that regard a certain text or teaching as wholly authoritative over one's life. By reconciling it with secular cognitive and moral practices that allow people to work together regardless of religious difference, he shows how these two worldviews can be brought together.
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Samuel Fleischacker defends what the Enlightenment called 'revealed religion': religions that regard a certain text or oral teaching as sacred, as wholly authoritative over one's life. At the same time, he maintains that revealed religions stand in danger of corruption or fanaticism unless they are combined with secular scientific practices and a secular morality. The first two parts of Divine Teaching and the Way of the World argue that the cognitive and moral practices of a society should prescind from religious commitments -- they constitute a secular 'way of the world', to adapt a phrase from the Jewish tradition, allowing human beings to work together regardless of their religious differences. But the way of the world breaks down when it comes to the question of what we live for, and it is this that revealed religions can illumine. Fleischacker first suggests that secular conceptions of why life is worth living are often poorly grounded, before going on to explore what revelation is, how it can answer the question of worth better than secular worldviews do, and how the revealed and way-of-the-world elements of a religious tradition can be brought together.
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- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1: The Way of the World (I): Truth
- 2: The Way of the World (II): Ethics
- 3: Beyond the Way of the World: Worth
- 4: Divine Teaching
- 5: Divine Teaching and the Way of the World
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: Proofs of God
- Appendix II: Maimonides on the Evidence for Revelation
- Appendix III: Kant on Art and Natural Beauty
Autoren-Porträt von Samuel Fleischacker
Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His previous work has focused on Enlightenment moral and political thought, especially that of Kant and Adam Smith, and on conceptions of culture, liberalism and distributive justice. He is the author of A Third Concept of Liberty (Princeton, 1999) and A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004) and editor of Heidegger's Jewish Followers (Duquesne, 2008). In 2009 his book, On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, was given the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award by the American Philosophical Association, for an outstanding book in the philosophy of social science. Since 2010, he has been Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Samuel Fleischacker
- 2011, 570 Seiten, Maße: 17 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019921736X
- ISBN-13: 9780199217366
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This is an important and rich book: historically informed, provocative, carefully argued and lucidly written. C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University
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