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Divine teaching and the way of the world : a defense of revealed religion / Samuel Fleischacker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleischacker, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Religion and ethics.
- Truth--Religious aspects.
- Truth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 559 pages)
- Other Title:
- Defense of revealed religion
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, he shows how these two worldviews can be brought together.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The way of the world I: truth
- Introductory
- Truth in the state of nature
- Socialized truth
- Experts and authorities
- Part II. The way of the world II: ethics
- Application
- Motivation
- Transformation
- Teleology
- Part III. Beyond the way of the world: worth
- Dissolving the question
- Dismissing the question
- Worth as attached to specific activities
- Worth as attached to general features of life
- Kantian accounts of worth
- Secular versus religious visions of worth
- Part IV. Divine teaching
- Models of faith: trust, orientation, receptivity
- Revelation
- Aspects of revelation I: moral teaching
- Aspects of revelation II: beauty
- Aspects of revelation III: a path
- Receiving revelation
- Multiple revelations
- Part V. Divine teaching and the way of the world
- Truth again
- Morality again
- Politics
- Epilogue
- Appendix I: Proofs of God
- Appendix II: Maimonides on the evidence for revelation
- Appendix III : Kant on art and natural beauty.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-541) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-967643-7
- 1-280-49842-0
- 9786613593658
- 0-19-161725-3
- OCLC:
- 769973038
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