Contemplating Religious Forms of Life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) made profound contributions to many areas of philosophy and cultural understanding, and his thought and methods have inspired numerous inquirers into the forms of our religious life. D.Z. Phillips (1934-2006) pioneered the application of Wittgenstein-influenced approa...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part one: Wittgenstein; 1 Primitive religiosity; Cognitivism and non-cognitivism; Understanding ourselves?; A direction in which to look; 2 Absolute safety; The doctrine of moral harm; Temporal and eternal perspectives; A tendency in the human mind; Concluding remarks; 3 The possibility of honest religious thinking; An unresolved tension?; Religious pictures; Grammar and religious truth; Part two: D.Z. Phillips; 4 Beyond realism and non-realism; Attending to details; Neither realism nor non-realism; Truth; God; Concluding remarks.
- 5 Contemplating eternal lifeAgainst 'survival'; Eternal life and self-renunciation; Rejecting metaphysics; Retreating into naturalism?; Concluding remarks; 6 Philosophy of religion through literature; Where and who we are; Defective visions; Sacrifice; Concluding remarks; 7 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.