Between naturalism and religion: philosophical essays.
Primary sources are essays by Habermas dealing with symbols and symbolism, mythic thought, ritual, religious studies, theology, and religion in the public sphere. I have refrained from including essays on the relation between moral philosophy and ethics, political theory and multiculturalism as well as essays on aesthetics, all of which may be.
Between Naturalism and Religion, Two conflicting tendencies characterize the intellectual atmosphere of our time: the expansion of a naturalized world picture and religious orthodoxy. On one side, advances in biogenetics, neuroscience, and robotics permea.
From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by J rgen Habermas.
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere: Butler, Judith, Habermas, Jurgen, Taylor, Charles, West, Cornel, Calhoun, Craig, Mendieta, Eduardo, VanAntwerpen, Jonathan.
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Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes of philosophy, but sometimes we would do well to focus instead on injustice. In epistemology, the very idea that there is a first-order ethical.
Abstract. In light of Habermas’s recent development of a socio-evolutionary account of the emergence of ritual introduced by the Axial Period, I focus most directly on the communicative ethic of achieving mutual understanding with a second person.
This is the second post in a series on religion and political thought in Australia. See introduction here. Geoff Boucher, Deakin University. According to its popularizations in the work of its critics, the connection between the secularization hypothesis and modernization theory can be simply and economically stated: increasing prosperity means decreasing belief.
