Secularization : an essay in normative metaphysics /: an essay in normative metaphysics. (2017)
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- Title:
- Secularization : an essay in normative metaphysics /: an essay in normative metaphysics. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Secularization : an essay in normative metaphysics
- Further Information:
- Note: Ulrich Steinvorth.
- Authors:
- Steinvorth, Ulrich
- Contents:
- Introduction. - Chapter 1: Three theses. - Chapter 2: Similar views.- PART 1: A NEW SECULARIZATION THESIS.- Chapter 3: Intrinsic goals and sphere-immanent rationalities.- Chapter 4: Religion and the absolute.- Chapter 5: Authenticity, morality, and the post-Enlightenment absolute.- Chapter 6: Authenticity in ancient China and Rome.- Chapter 7: Montaigne's authenticity.- Chapter 8: Mortality and Montaignean authenticity.- Chapter 9: A naturalistic proof of the validity of the authenticity command.- Chapter 10: Three comments on the naturalistic proof.- Chapter 11: The thesis. PART 2: OBJECTIONS.- Chapter 12: Religion cannot be perfected, least of all by authenticity.- Chapter 13: Claims on the absolute must be infallible.- Chapter 14: Hegel's red herring.- Chapter 15: Rational metaphysics cannot relate to the absolute.- Chapter 16 Secular societies can do without anything absolute.- Chapter 17: Secularization is a unique Western development.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 211.6
Secularization (Theology)
Secularism
Metaphysics - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319638713
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319638706
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