Religions, reasons and gods : essays in cross-cultural philosophy of religion /

Traditional theistic proofs are often understood as evidence intended to compel belief in a divinity. John Clayton explores the surprisingly varied applications of such proofs in the work of philosophers and theologians from several periods and traditions, thinkers as varied as Ramanuja, al-Ghazali,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Clayton, John Powell (Author)
Other Authors: Blackburn, Anne M., 1967-, Carroll, Thomas D. (Thomas Donald)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Religion > Philosophy.
Ethnophilosophy.
Religion > Philosophie.
Ethnophilosophie.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
Ethnophilosophy
Religion > Philosophy
Interkulturalität
Religionsphilosophie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Claims, contexts and contestability
  • [Part I. Reason and religious pluralism.] Thomas Jefferson and the study of religion
  • Common ground and defensible difference
  • Religions, reasons and gods
  • [Part II. Theistic arguments in pre-modern contexts.] Ramanuja, Hume and 'comparative philosophy': remarks on the Sribhasya and the Dialogues concerning natural religion
  • Piety and the proofs
  • The otherness of Anselm
  • [Part III. Theistic arguments in early-modern contexts.] The debate about God in early-modern French philosophy
  • The Enlightenment project and the debate about God in early-modern German philosophy
  • The debate about God in early-modern British philosophy
  • Beyond the 'Enlightenment project'?
  • Appendix: the 1997 Hulsean Sermon.

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