Philosophy Religion And The Coming World Civilization

Author : L.S. Rouner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401035323

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Philosophy, Religion, and the Coming World Civilization by L.S. Rouner Pdf

Gabriel Marcel reminds me that I asked him to write for this book. This is quite true, but not the whole story. During the visit with Ernest Hocking which he describes so eloquently in his essay, "Solips ism Surmounted," he learned from Hocking's hostess, Elizabeth Hazard, that I was planning hopefully for a Hocking F estschri/t. On his return to Harvard, where he was preparing his James Lectures, he wrote me offering an essay should these plans develop. Encouraged, I kept his letter while I moved my family to India and settled into a new job. When it was possible to begin work on the book in earnest I then made my request, reminding him of his original offer. I mention this because I discovered that his enthusiasm was to be typical of those who came to know about the project. Charles Moore commented that such a book was "long overdue," and Walter Stace spoke for us all when he said: "I am sure that there is no one in our profession who would not wish to be associated with any project in his honor. " Given the wide range of Hocking's interests and influence, it was difficult to know just how the volume should be organized.

Author : Leroy S. Rouner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:869651521

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Philosophy, Religion, and the Coming World Civilization by Leroy S. Rouner Pdf

Author : William Ernest Hocking
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048985470

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The Coming World Civilization by William Ernest Hocking Pdf

Author : William Ernest Hocking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Civilization
ISBN : NWU:35556028895845

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The Coming World Civilization by William Ernest Hocking Pdf

Author : Radoslav A. Tsanoff
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813164779

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Civilization and Progress by Radoslav A. Tsanoff Pdf

Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject. In the author's view, the history of civilization reveals an increasing range of human capacity, both for good and for evil, depending upon men's choice between contending values. From this standpoint, the work proceeds to the exploration of such fields of social activity as the evolution of the family, the emancipation of women, economic conditions and technology, intellectual and aesthetic values, moral and religious experience. Civilization and Progress is marked by balanced and judicious treatment, very broad learning, and a lucid and forceful style. The author asks us to consider the alternatives we face and to reflect on the choices which men have made in the past, which confront us in the present world crisis, and on which our destiny hangs in the future. Seminal in scholarship and creativity, this work will interest those concerned with the Western intellectual tradition and with the condition of mankind.

Author : Leroy S. Rouner
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B686274

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Within Human Experience by Leroy S. Rouner Pdf

Author : Graham Oppy,N. N. Trakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317546504

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Ancient Philosophy of Religion by Graham Oppy,N. N. Trakakis Pdf

The origins of the Western philosophical tradition lie in the ancient Greco-Roman world. This volume provides a unique insight into the life and writings of a diverse group of philosophers in antiquity and presents the latest thinking on their views on God, the gods, religious belief and practice. Beginning with the 'pre-Socratics', the volume then explores the influential contributions made to the Western philosophy of religion by the three towering figures of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The chapters that follow cover the the leading philosophers of the major schools of the ancient world - Epicureanism, Stoicism, Neoplatonism and the early Christian Church. "Ancient Philosophy of Religion" will be of interest to scholars and students of Philosophy, Classics and Religion, while remaining accessible to any interested in the rich cultural heritage of ancient religious thought.

Author : Gavin Flood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192573148

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Religion and the Philosophy of Life by Gavin Flood Pdf

Religion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer. Gavin Flood offers an integrative account of the nature of the human, based on what contemporary scientists tell us, especially evolutionary science and social neuroscience, as well as through the history of civilizations. Part one contemplates fundamental questions and assumptions: what the current state of knowledge is concerning life itself; what the philosophical issues are in that understanding; and how we can explain religion as the driving force of civilizations in the context of human development within an evolutionary perspective. It also addresses the question of the emergence of religion and presents a related study of sacrifice as fundamental to religions' views about life and its transformation. Part two offers a reading of religions in three civilizational blocks—India, China, and Europe/the Middle East—particularly as they came to formation in the medieval period. It traces the history of how these civilizations have thematised the idea of life itself. Part three then takes up the idea of a life force in part three and traces the theme of the philosophy of life through to modern times. On the one hand, the book presents a narrative account of life itself through the history of civilizations, and on the other presents an explanation of that narrative in terms of life.

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520203720

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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

These lectures represent the final, and in some ways the decisive, element of Hegel's entire philosophical system. This volume contains Hegel's philosophical interpretation of the history of religions, specifically of primitive religion, the religion of ancient China, Buddhism, Hinduism, Persian and Egyptian religions, and Jewish, Greek and Roman religion.

Author : Saïd Amir Arjomand,Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438483412

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From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond by Saïd Amir Arjomand,Stephen Kalberg Pdf

The post–World War II idea of the Axial Age by Karl Jaspers, and as elaborated into the sociology of axial civilizations by S. N. Eisenstadt in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, continues to be the subject of intense scholarly debate. Examples of this can be found in recent works of Hans Joas and Jürgen Habermas. In From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond, an internationally distinguished group of scholars discuss, advance, and criticize the Jaspers-Eisenstadt thesis, and go beyond it by bringing in the critical influence of Max Weber's sociology of world religions and by exploring intercivilizational encounters in key world regions. The essays within this volume are of unusual interest for their original analysis of relatively neglected civilizational zones, especially Islam and the Islamicate civilization and the Byzantine civilization, and its continuation in Orthodox Russia.

Author : William Ernest Hocking
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89094583044

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Living Religions and a World Faith by William Ernest Hocking Pdf

Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Christian civilization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003801656

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Progress & Religion by Christopher Dawson Pdf

The idea of progress, the doctrine that involves the belief that every day in every way the world grows better and better, has dominated the civilization of Western Europe in modern times. Far more than merely a philosophical opinion or the doctrine of a school, it has permeated the whole mind of society. This book analyzes the theory of progress in a panoramic study which examines the interrelation between religion and culture of all the major civilizations of the world. The author maintains that the vital, creative power behind every culture is a spiritual one. All civilizations have a common element, religion, "the key to history", which influences every human activity; and he specifically demonstrates that Christianity is the religion that gave Western culture its being. The rise of the theory of progress has led to the secularization of modern civilization and the decline of spiritual influence.

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599644

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Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

Author : Peter H. Denton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791450732

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The A B C of Armageddon by Peter H. Denton Pdf

An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated "the scientific outlook" to insure the survival of humanity in an age of potential self-destruction.

Author : Horatio Willis Dresser
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519444214

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Man and the Divine Order by Horatio Willis Dresser Pdf

Mr. Dresser's book is of a highly religious yet thoroughly philosophic nature. He seeks to show the unity which exists between religion, philosophy and science. While his book is thoroughly idealistic yet he in no way ignores the practical side of life. For, recognizing that the ideal is only truly exemplified as it expresses itself through the practical, the author shows the need of the spirit having full access to the outer life. We cannot do better than to quote Mr. Dresser's own words wherein he shows the difference between the spirit and the letter: "One might say that what the world most needs at present is to brush away all abstractions, and return to the sources of things until it is once more fired by the presence of the divine, until it knows for a fact that God lives; then be true to that fact, live for that fact, realize that the divine order is, exists, - not merely seems to be. It is not so much 'reasons for believing' that we need as that type of conduct which accompanies thrilling belief, stirring consciousness of the divine. The world needs science; it needs education, thought, thoroughgoing philosophy, not mere dabbling in the metaphysical realm. But it needs the Spirit even more than it needs downright thinking. "We are absorbed in forms: let us have the Spirit itself. Therefore, when you read the imperfect terms of a philosophical book, remember the broadly spiritual ideal. Instead of singling out its defects and publishing them, set a new fashion and begin to be constructive; supply in your conduct what the book lacks. One must be tremendously in earnest to know life. One must courageously persist to the end. The science of truth is inseparable from the art of life, and one can no more float easily into the harbour of wisdom than one can know what love is by delegating someone to love in one's stead. "Let philosophy become religion once more. Let religion be purged by philosophy. Let us begin work at last. We have scarcely reached the age of reason. We live in bits, in schemes, devices, and shadows, which we mistake for wholes and realities. Let us come out into the broad sunlight and be men. A man is an organic assemblage, and must be poet, philosopher, lover, and much else, all in one. The highest life is many-sided. We must adore it from many points of view. We must be beautiful in order truly to adore. Therefore, let us begin to live." The book is written in a clear, scholarly way and is a worthy successor to the many good books that Mr. Dresser has written. -"Mind," Vol. 13 [1904]