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Critique of religion and philosophy /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaufmann, Walter, 1921-1980
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1979.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Princeton Paperback Edition
  • Preface to the 1972 Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • I. The Philosophic Flight
  • 1. Philosophical psychology
  • 2. The psychology of truth
  • 3. Style
  • 4. The philosopher's dilemma
  • 5. The philosophic flight
  • 6. A series of etchings
  • 7. Hegel and Nietzsche
  • 8. Why most philosophers cannot laugh
  • 9. What long aphorisms can mean
  • 10. Relativity and criticism
  • II. Positivism and Existentialism
  • 11. Two revolts
  • 12. Analytic philosophy
  • 13. Existentialism
  • 14. Two timeless tendencies
  • 15. Empiricism as empiricide
  • 16. Plato's vision of man
  • 17. The British vision of man
  • 18. Donnish doubt
  • 19. Wittgenstein
  • 20. Wittgenstein and Socrates
  • 21. Followers
  • III. Truth, Language, and Experience
  • 22. Truth
  • True and false
  • 23. The aspiration for truth
  • 24. Truth and correctness
  • 25. Truth and meaning, or: How to read a philosopher
  • 26. Theories of truth
  • 27. Words and experience
  • 28. Language and emotion
  • 29. ""Love
  • 30. Words as categories
  • 31. Works of art as categories
  • 32. Common sense
  • IV. Religion, Faith, and Evidence
  • 33. Definitions of religion
  • 34. Religion at the bar
  • 35. ""Subjective"" truth
  • 36. Knowledge, belief, and faith
  • 37. Faith, evidence, and James
  • 38. Three types of religious propositions
  • 39. Recourse to revelation or miracles
  • 40. Faith and its causes: contra James
  • 41. Seven causes
  • 42. Freud and wishful thinking
  • V. The God of the Philosophers
  • 43. Godless religions
  • 44. Plato's proof that gods exist
  • 45. St Thomas Aquinas
  • 46. Perfection and the ontological argument
  • 47. Kant's postulate
  • 48. Can one prove God's existence?
  • 49. Pascal's wager
  • VI. God, Ambiguity, and Theology
  • 50. God and ambiguity
  • 51. The ambiguity of dogma
  • 52. Analogy
  • 53. Symbols: contra Tillich
  • 54. Demythologizing and valuations
  • 55. Contra Bultmann
  • 56. Gerrymandering
  • 57. Theology
  • VII. Satanic Interlude, or How to Go to Hell
  • 58. Dialogue between Satan and a Theologian
  • 59. Dialogue between Satan and a Christian
  • 60. Dialogue between Satan and an Atheist
  • VIII. Truth in Three Religions
  • 61. Religion and truth
  • 62. Buddhism and truth
  • 63. Zen Buddhism and truth
  • 64. Judaism and truth
  • 65. Jewish and Christian faith
  • 66. Infidel piety
  • 67. Liberal Protestantism and truth
  • 68. Reinhold Niebuhr and truth
  • 69. A Platonic error, reason, and Christianity
  • 70. Christianity and truth
  • IX. The Core of Religion
  • 71. Claims for mysticism
  • 72. Ineffability
  • 73. Mysticism as a historical phenomenon
  • 74. Criteria of mystical experience
  • 75. The experience of inspiration
  • 76. Mysticism, inspiration, and religion
  • 77. Contra Fromm: religion and tragedy
  • 78. Religion and loyalty
  • 79. Thomist versus non-Thomist
  • 80. Loyalty and truth