05801nam 2200685 a 450 991097383720332120240410155005.01-283-01223-597866130122341-907343-23-7(CKB)2670000000079696(OCoLC)707099164(CaPaEBR)ebrary10451050(SSID)ssj0000569078(PQKBManifestationID)11395905(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000569078(PQKBWorkID)10536762(PQKB)10634716(MiAaPQ)EBC3007754(EXLCZ)99267000000007969620150424d2011|||| s|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrFuture of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality[electronic resource]Cambridge, GBRCambridge International Science Publishing20110101Cambridge International Science Publishing1 online resource (517 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781907353223 Intro -- CONTENTS -- Part One: Introduction -- Part Two: Sacredness -- Part Three: Secularness -- Part Four: Conclusion -- TABLES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION - THE AWE OF RELIGION -- The Secular Underestimation of Religion -- Religious Studies vs. Theology -- Religious Studies -- Theology -- Religion vs. Spirituality -- Religion -- Spirituality -- Religion and Supernatural Reality -- Monotheism vs. Polytheism -- Pantheism vs. Deism vs. Panentheism -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Theistic Argument -- The Skeptical Argument -- The Critical Argument -- The Comparative-Substitutive Argument -- The Comparative-Substitutive Theory of Religion -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO Sacredness -- CHAPTER 2. SACREDNESS AND ITS LIMITS -- The Importance of Sacredness -- Sacredness and the Mind -- Faith, Reason, and Religion -- Magical Thinking, and Religion -- Sacredness and Nature -- Religious Cosmology, and the Teleological Argument -- Evolutionary Theory, and Religion -- Sacredness and Society -- Religious Conversion, and the Politics of Rights -- New Religious Movements, and the Sociology of Religion -- Sacredness and Culture.Shamanism, the Outer-World, and the Role of Culture -- Animism, the Spirits, and Cultural Traditions -- The Limitation of Sacredness -- PART THREE Secularness -- CHAPTER 3. SECULARNESS AND ITS FAULTS -- The Promise of Secularness -- Secularness and the Mind -- Mental Delusion, and the Secular Origin of Religions -- Power Drive, Developmental Stages, and the Search for Faith -- Secularness and Nature -- Evolutionary Biology, and the Debate on Creation in Religion -- Heliocentrism, and Its Conflict with Organized Religion -- Secularness and Society -- Religion, and the Challenge of Secularization -- Religion, and the Politics of Antireligion -- Secularness and Culture -- The Anti-Christian, and the Quest for Life Affirmation -- Philosophy of Religion, and Its Critical Questions for Religion -- The Pitfall of Secularness -- PART FOUR Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4. CONCLUSION - THE FUTURE OF RELIGION -- Beyond Sacredness and Secularness -- Other Relevant Principles -- 1st Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle -- 2nd Thesis: The Predictability-Unpredictability Principle -- 3rd Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle -- 4th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle -- 5th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle -- 6th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle -- 7th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle -- 8th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle -- 9th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle -- 10th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle -- 11th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle -- 12th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle -- 13th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle -- 14th Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle -- 15th Thesis: The Same-Difference Principle -- 16th Thesis: The Post-Human Substitution -- Towards the Higher Spirituality -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E.F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.SCIENCEbisacGeneralbisacReligionPhilosophySpiritualityHoly, TheReligionHILCCPhilosophy & ReligionHILCCChristianityHILCCReligion - GeneralHILCCSCIENCEGeneralReligionPhilosophy.Spirituality.Holy, The.ReligionPhilosophy & ReligionChristianityReligion - General200Baofu Peter1611821PQKBBOOK9910973837203321Future of Post-Human Religion : A Preface to a New Theory of Spirituality4451770UNINA04107nam 22006015 450 991030063210332120230810163449.03-030-01962-410.1007/978-3-030-01962-4(CKB)4100000007158947(MiAaPQ)EBC5603026(DE-He213)978-3-030-01962-4(EXLCZ)99410000000715894720181123d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMeaning and Truth in African Philosophy Doing African Philosophy with Language /by Grivas Muchineripi Kayange1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (174 pages)Philosophical Studies Series,2542-8349 ;1353-030-01961-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Figurative Utterances And Meaning -- Chapter 1. Philosophical Framework For Doing African Philosophy -- Chapter 2. Pragmatic Semantics And Chichewa Proverbs -- Chapter 3. Meaning Of Taboos Using Counterfactual Logic -- Chapter 4. Doing African Philosophy With Metaphors -- Chapter 5. Riddles, Meaning And Rationality/Logic -- Part II: Conceptual Analysis: Truth, Beauty And Meaning -- Chapter 6. The Chewa Logical Concept Of Truth -- Chapter 7. The Chewa Concept Of Beauty And Meaning -- Part III: African Communitarianism (Ubuntu) Vs African Individualism Through Language -- Chapter 8. Conceptual Analysis Of Ubuntu/Umunthu And Meaning -- Chapter 9. Deducing Individualism In African Society Through The Study Of Language.This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk. The author bases his investigation on the belief that traditional African philosophy is hidden in expressions used in ordinary language. As a result, he argues that people are engaging in a philosophical activity when they use expressions such as taboos, proverbs, idioms, riddles, and metaphors. The analysis investigates proverbs using the ordinary language approach and Speech Act theory. Next, the author looks at taboos using counterfactual logic, which studies the meaning of taboo expressions by departing from a consideration of their structure and use. He argues that the study of these figurative expressions using the counterfactual framework offers a particular understanding of African philosophy and belief systems. The study also investigates issues of meaning and rationality departing from a study on riddles, explores conceptual metaphors used in conceptualizing the notion of politics in modern African political thought, and examines language and marginalization of women and people with disabilities. The book differs from other works in African philosophy in the sense that it does not claim that Africans have a philosophy as is commonly done in most studies. Rather, it reflects and unfolds philosophical elements in ordinary language use. The book also builds African Conception of beauty and truth through the study of language.Philosophical Studies Series,2542-8349 ;135Analysis (Philosophy)African languagesEthnologyAfricaCultureSemioticsAnalytic PhilosophyAfrican LanguagesAfrican CultureSemioticsAnalysis (Philosophy)African languages.EthnologyCulture.Semiotics.Analytic Philosophy.African Languages.African Culture.Semiotics.199.6Kayange Grivas Muchineripiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut866397BOOK9910300632103321Meaning and Truth in African Philosophy2124610UNINA