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Reason, freedom, & democracy in Islam : essential writings of ʻAbdolkarim Soroush /

In recent years Abdolkarim Soroush has emerged as one of the leading revisionist thinkers of the Muslim world. Translated into English for the first time, this book features a critical introduction by the editors and an original interview that reveals the intellectual biography of the author. It set...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm
Otros Autores: Sadri, Mahmoud, Sadri, Ahmad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Persian
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1: Intellectual Autobiography
  • 2: Islamic Revival and Reform
  • 3: Life and Virtue
  • 4: The Sense and Essence of Secularism
  • 1. The Fundamental Rift between Tradition and Modernity
  • 2. Secularism and Religion
  • 3. Secularism and Modern Worldview
  • 4. The Modern Primacy of Rights over Duties
  • 5. The Roots of the Secularization of the Human Mind
  • 6. The Social and Political Implications of Secularism
  • 5: Doctrine and Justification
  • The New Challenges of the Philosophy of Religion.
  • The Question of Justifiability of Religious Doctrines
  • The First Proposition: Unjustifiability of the Doctrine
  • The Second Proposition: Partial Justifiability of Ideas, Positive Evidence
  • The Third Proposition: Partial Justifiability of Ideas, Negative Evidence
  • The Fourth Proposition: Conditional Justifiability of Ideas
  • Fifth Proposition: Full Verifiability of Ideas
  • 6: Reason and Freedom
  • 7: The Ethics of the Gods
  • 8: The Idea of Democratic Religious Government
  • Of Concordance of Reason ['Aql] and Revelation [Shar']
  • Of Respect for Human Rights.
  • 9: Tolerance and Governance
  • 1. The Principles of a Religious Democratic Government: A Synopsis
  • 2. Shared Notions of Justice, Human Rights, and Limited Power in Democracy and in Religion
  • 3. The Paradox of "Democratic Religious Government": A Critical Exchange
  • 4. Is Faith Contrary to Tolerance?
  • 5. The Inalienable Freedom of Faith Entails Freedom of Religion
  • 6. Democracy: The Spirit and the Letter of Religion
  • 7. Law, Religious Law, and Democracy
  • 8. Religiosity, Rationality, and Democracy
  • 9. Morality, Religious Morality, and Democracy
  • 10. A Look Back and a Look Forward.
  • 10: The Three Cultures
  • The Significance of the National Culture and the Hazards of Nationalist Extremism
  • Coming to Terms with Western Culture: Beyond "West Toxication"
  • The Status of Islamic Culture in Iran
  • A Final Note on the Difference between Servile Imitation and Critical Exchange
  • 11: What the University Expects from the Hawzeh
  • 12: Let Us Learn from History
  • A Lesson in Epistemology: The Ahistorical View of Traditional Philosophy
  • A Lesson in Philosophical Anthropology
  • The Heuristic Value of Historical Evil.
  • Social Policy and the Insights of the Modern Philosophical Anthropology
  • The Divine Prophets and Human Nature
  • Notes
  • Selected References
  • Index.