Pragmatic Humanism Revisited

An Essay on Making the World a Home

Ana Honnacker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 106 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-02440-6 (ISBN)

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How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors like William James and F.C.S. Schiller, it highlights a fundamentally humanist strand of pragmatism aimed at fostering human creativity and transformative action. It is grounded in everyday experience and underlines our responsibility to strive for the better. Ana Honnacker traces perspectives on science, religion, and ethics in the light of a pragmatic understanding of humanism. Furthermore, she suggests how to address the existential challenges we face today. Thus, pragmatic humanism is explored not only as a philosophy for critical minds, but also as a way of life.

Ana Honnacker is Assistant Professor at the Hanover Institute for Philosophical Research, Germany.

1. Introduction.- 2. Approaching Pragmatic Humanism.- 3. Human Inquiry and the Authority of Science.- 4. Emancipatory Outlooks on Religion and Faith.- 5. Experimental Action and Inclusion: The Ethics of Pragmatic Humanism.- 6. Thinking About Last Things: Death, Finitude, and Meaning.- 7. Conclusion: Living on Uncertainties-Pragmatic Humanism as a Way of Life.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Humanism and Atheism
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 106 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	283 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Atheism • F.C.S. Schiller • Pragmatism • Secularism • William James
ISBN-10	3-030-02440-7 / 3030024407
ISBN-13	978-3-030-02440-6 / 9783030024406
Zustand	Neuware