Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6038-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6038-2 (ISBN)
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This book examines Richard Rorty’s position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and it proposes that Rorty’s position is contradicted by what is a fundamental part of every human life: the phenomenon of human recognition of other people.
Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and knowledge is regarded as part of the active pursuit of a better world. Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics argues that while Rorty’s case is clearly and robustly made, it is fundamentally challenged by the phenomenon of human recognition, the relationship that arises between people when they talk to one another. John Owens demonstrates that recognition, so central to human life, cannot be accommodated within Rorty’s proposals, given that it precisely attributes a reality to others that goes beyond anything a pragmatist framework can offer. It follows that there is more to human interaction than can be explained by Rorty’s pragmatism.
Believing that humanity would be better off if it simply dropped its traditional religious and metaphysical beliefs, Richard Rorty proposes an alternative approach, drawn from the American pragmatist tradition, where things get their significance against a background of broad human interests, and knowledge is regarded as part of the active pursuit of a better world. Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics argues that while Rorty’s case is clearly and robustly made, it is fundamentally challenged by the phenomenon of human recognition, the relationship that arises between people when they talk to one another. John Owens demonstrates that recognition, so central to human life, cannot be accommodated within Rorty’s proposals, given that it precisely attributes a reality to others that goes beyond anything a pragmatist framework can offer. It follows that there is more to human interaction than can be explained by Rorty’s pragmatism.
John Owens is lecturer in philosophy at Good Shepherd College, Auckland, New Zealand.
Part I: Philosophy
Chapter One: The Attack on Realism
Chapter Two: The Attack on Aristotelianism
Chapter Three: Pragmatism
Part II: Religion
Chapter Four: Pragmatist Religious Belief
Chapter Five: Pragmatism and the Theologians
Part III: Ethics
Chapter Six: Pragmatist Social Ethics
Chapter Seven: The Question of Recognition
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Philosophy Series |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 526 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-6038-5 / 1498560385 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-6038-2 / 9781498560382 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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