Robert Spaemann's philosophy of the human person : nature, freedom, and the critique of modernity / Holger Zaborowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaborowski, Holger, 1974-

Series:

Oxford theological monographs.

Oxford theological monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spaemann, Robert.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The German philosopher Robert Spaemann provides an important contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology, opening up possibilities for conversation between these disciplines. He engages in a dialogue with classical and contemporary positions and often formulates important and original insights which lie beyond common alternatives. In this study Holger Zaborowski provides an analysis of the most important features of Spaemann's philosophy and shows theunity of his thought.The question 'Who is a person?' is of increasing significance: Are all human beings persons?

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Philosophy in a time of crisis; 1.1 The crisis of modernity; 1.2 Robert Spaemann's Christianly informed criticism of modernity; 1.3 Robert Spaemann-a biographical sketch; 1.4 An outline of the argument; 2 Conversation, recollection, and the search for happiness. Spaemann's notion of philosophy; 2.1 The form of philosophy; 2.2 The nature of philosophy; 2.3 Recollection, preservation, and the challenge of the future; 3 The dialectic of Enlightenment: Spaemann's critique of modernity and its dialectic

3.1 Philosophy as a theory and critique of modernity and its dialetic3.2 The grandeur and the misère of modernity; 3.3 The main features of modernity as an ambiguous phenomenon; 3.4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a paradigmatic figure of modernity; 3.5 The transformation of the doctrine of Original Sin; 4 Society, philosophy, and religion: Spaemann and the dialectic of anti-modernism; 4.1 The dialectic of anti-modernism; 4.2 The paradigmatic character of Bonald's philosophy; 4.3 The historical context of The Origin of Sociology in the Spirit of Restoration; 4.4 The ambiguity of Bonald's thought

4.5 The functionalistic interpretation of Christianity4.6 The functionalistic interpretation of philosophy; 4.7 The totalitarian claim of sociology in Niklas Luhmann's philosophy; 4.8 The fusion of morality and philosophy of history; 4.9 Philosophy as theoria and religion as substantial belief; 5 Nature, freedom, and persons: Spaemann's philosophy of Selbstsein; 5.1 The person in contemporary philosophy; 5.2 Modernity and the crisis of the 'person'; 5.3 Historicism and science fiction as philosophical methods; 5.4 Life, motion, possibility, and the paradigm of the person

5.5 The ontology of identity and the logical indispensability of the person5.6 Who is a person?; 5.7 Robert Spaemann's philosophy of Selbstsein; 5.8 Person as a nomen dignitatis; 5.9 The 'ontology' of promising and forgiving; 5.10 The human person and the transcendence of Being; 5.11 Selbstsein and the end of the dialectic of modernity; 6 Christianity, philosophy, and the end of modernity; 6.1 The apologetic character of Spaemann's philosophy; 6.2 Spaemann's view of Christianity; 6.3 The relation between philosophy and Christianity from antiquity to modernity

6.4 Christianity and evolutionary metaphysics6.5 Conclusion: Christianity, post-modern philosophies, and the glory of God; Select bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612502019

1-282-50201-8

0-19-157355-8

OCLC:

550606487