Philosophical perspectives on existential gratitude : analytic, continental, and religious / edited by Joshua Lee Harris, Kirk Lougheed, and Neal DeRoo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lougheed, Kirk, editor.

DeRoo, Neal, editor.

Harris, Joshua Lee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gratitude--Religious aspects.

Gratitude.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023]

Summary:

Existential gratitude-gratitude for one's very existence or life as a whole-is pervasive across the most influential human, cultural and religious traditions. Weaving together analytic and continental, as well as non-western and historical philosophical perspectives, this volume explores the nexus of gratitude, existence and God as an inter-subjective phenomenon for the first time. A team of leading scholars introduce existential gratitude as a perennially and characteristically human phenomenon, central to the distinctive life of our species. Attention is given to the conditions under which existence itself might be construed as having a gift-like or otherwise gratitude-inducing character. Drawing on a diversity of perspectives, chapters mark out new territory in philosophical inquiry, addressing whether and in what sense we ought to be grateful for our very existence. By analysing gratitude, this collection makes a novel contribution to the discourse on moral emotions, phenomenology, anti-natalism and theology.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

Dedication

Title

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Existential Gratitude: A Social-structural Account

2 Gratitude and Resentment: A Tale of Two Weddings

3 Gratitude and the Human Vocation

4 Generous Existence? Gift, Giving, and Gratitude in Contemporary Phenomenology

5 Gratitude for Life-force in African Philosophy

6 On the Contingent Necessity of the World

7 Existential Gratitude in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing

8 Lessons from Anti-natalism on God and Gratitude for Our Existence

9 Thank You: William Desmond's Metaphysics of Gift and Ethic of Gratitude

Notes on Contributors

Index

Copyright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350289147

1350289140

OCLC:

1356004298