John Owens

Rorty, Religion, and Metaphysics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978772908
• Artikelnr.: 74398339

Autorenporträt

John Owens is lecturer in philosophy at Good Shepherd College, Auckland, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

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