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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962075303321

Autore

Godlove Terry

Titolo

Kant and the Meaning of Religion : The Critical Philosophy and Modern Religious Thought

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : I.B.Tauris, 2014

ISBN

9780857734891

085773489X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Classificazione

CF 5017

200

Disciplina

170.92

210.92

Soggetti

Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 -- Influence

Philosophy and religion

Religion -- Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Author biography; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface & Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Concepts; III. Preliminary Implications; II. The Spatial Theory of Concepts; I. Enough is Not Everything; 2. Definition; IV. Essentialism; III. Criticism; II. Religion in General; I. Varieties of Definition; 3. Reason; IV. A Ptolemaic Capstone; III. Reconstruction; II. Regulative and Constitutive; I. The Theorizing Mind; 4. Experience; V. Dependence and Illusion; IV. The Christian Faith; III. Proudfoot's Criticisms; II. On Religion; I. Kant's Non-conceptualism; 5. Self

IV. Varieties of conformity today: social, religious, epistemicIII. The social construction of apperception; II. Kant on self-awareness; I. James, the subjective, and the social; 6. Meaning; III. From philosophy of religion to religious studies; II. A deflationary account of "God"; I. Explanations of meaning in terms of use; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Without Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) there would probably be no modern discipline of ''the philosophy of religion''. Kant''s considerable influence has ensured that philosophers, in addressing religious



questions, have focused on such issues as arguments for and against the existence of God; the question of immortality; the compatibility of human evil and transcendent goodness; and the relationship between morality and the divine. Many books already explore the nature of his influence. But this one goes further. It argues that Kant''s theoretical philosophy, also called ''the critical philosophy'