The great ideas of religion and freedom : a semiotic reinterpretation of the great ideas movement for the 21st century / edited by Peter A. Redpath, Imelda Chlodna-Blach and Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Redpath, Peter A., editor.

Chłodna, Imelda, editor.

Mamcarz-Plisiecki, Artur, editor.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 369.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 369

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty--Religious aspects.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

This volume tests a hypothesis-philosophy and science are identical forms of behavioristic, organizational psychology: a psychological habit of wondering about causes of organizational existence, formation, and behaviour. Focusing attention on two universal and culturally influential great ideas-freedom and religion-this volume's array of international scholars demonstrate that leading ancient and medieval philosophers did philosophy in this way. Also, well-known philosophers/scientists like Mortimer J. Adler and John N. Deely practiced philosophy this way. Doing so is precisely what made these philosophers uniquely capable of generating great ideas as motivational principles that dramatically alter cultures. In a nutshell, this work offers significant support for its historically and philosophically ground-breaking thesis.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction

Peter A. Redpath

1 Reflections on Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings about the Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

Piotr Jaroszyński

2 Free and Religious Actions as Semiotic Effects of the Great Ideas

Maria Joanna Gondek

3 How Commonsense Philosophical Realism Influenced Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings

Joanna Kiereś-Łach

4 Becoming a Masterpiece of Unbending Will

Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki

5 Karol Wojtyła on Semiotically Expressing the Great Ideas of the True and the Good

Arkadiusz Gudaniec

6 How the Great Ideas Can Help Resolve the Contemporary Decline of the West

Wojciech Daszkiewicz

7 Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas

Katarzyna Stępień

8 Czesław Martyniak: The Great Ideas as Motivational Causes

Rafał Charzyński

9 The Great Ideas: Causes of Human Transcendence or Enslavement?

Tomasz Duma

10 Christianity: Friend or Foe of the Great Ideas?

Robert T. Ptaszek

11 Semiotics of Organizational Leadership and Gateway Leadership Induction Technology (GATELIT)

Marvin B. Daniel Peláez

12 Greatness of Character in Classical Confucianism

Jason Morgan

13 The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation

Adam L. Barborich

14 Mortimer J. Adler

From Annoying Philosophical Bastard to Great Educational Reformer

Imelda Chłodna-Błach

Conclusion.

"Leisure Is the Basis of Culture": Was Josef Pieper Wrong?

Peter A. Redpath

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46801-3

OCLC:

1260168493

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004468016 DOI