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Religion as magical ideology : how the supernatural reflects rationality
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ISBN: 1315729040 1317544749 1844656454 9781317544739 1317544730 9781317544746 9781317544722 1317544722 9781315729046 9781844656448 Year: 2013 Publisher: Durham : Acumen Publishing,

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Religion as Magical Ideology examines the relationship between rationality and supernatural beliefs arguing that such beliefs are products of evolution, cognition and culture. The book does not offer a false rapprochement between reason and religion; instead, it explores their interrelationship as a series of complex adaptations between cognitive and cultural processes. Exploring the nature of the tension between religious traditions and reason, Religion as Magical Ideology develops a dual inheritance theory of religion - which combines the cognitive byproduct and prosocial adaptation accounts - and analyses the connection between the function of a belief and the degree of protection it gets from potential counter-evidence. With discussion ranging from individual cognitive mechanisms, general functional considerations, to the limits of evolutionary and cognitive processes, the book offers readers a systematic account of how cognition shapes religious beliefs and practices.


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Athens & Jerusalem
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ISBN: 0821445618 9780821445617 9780821422199 0821422197 9780821422205 0821422200 Year: 2016 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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"For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov -- an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years -- makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesaw Miosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov's final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin's classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century. "--


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Rethinking philosophy in light of the Bible : from Kant to Schopenhauer
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ISBN: 1498505791 073919318X 9780739193181 9780739193174 0739193171 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books,

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This book analyzes the ideas central to the philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Kierkegaard to show that they are biblical in origin, both ontologically and historically. Polka argues that Schopenhauer has an altogether false conception of the fundamental ideas of the Bible and of Christianity, which leaves his philosophy irredeemably contradictory.


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The philosophy of living experience : popular outlines
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ISBN: 9004306463 9789004306462 9789004231900 9004231900 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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The Philosophy of Living Experience is the single best introduction to the thought of Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), a Russian polymath who was co-founder, with Lenin, of the Bolshevik Party. His landmark achievements are Empiriomonism (1904–6), a philosophy of radical empiricism that he developed to replace what he considered to be the crude materialism of contemporary Marxists, and Tektology: Universal Organisational Science (1912–17), a precursor of cybernetics and systems theory. The Philosophy of Living Experience (1913) was written at a transitional point between the two; it is a final summing up of empiriomonism, an illustration of his theory of the social genesis of ideas, and an anticipation of Tektology.

Metaphor, analogy, and the place of places : where religion and philosophy meet.
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ISBN: 1932792074 Year: 2004 Publisher: Waco Baylor university press

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Effing the ineffable
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ISBN: 9781438471235 9781438471259 9781438471242 1438471254 1438471238 Year: 2018 Publisher: Albany

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In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task.

The philosophy of religion: an historical introduction
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ISBN: 1405118725 9781405118729 1405118733 9781405118736 Year: 2007 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell

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Man and his dwelling place : an essay towards the interpretation of nature
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ISBN: 0511693052 1108001238 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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History remembers James Hinton as a successful surgeon and author of books and articles on physiology and ethics. A gifted thinker and communicator, Hinton was well placed to address the relationship between science and religion in an age when the two were pitted against each other. First published in 1859, the same year as the Origin of Species, Man and His Dwelling Place takes an ambitiously broad view of the human condition, addressing difficult topics from science, religion, philosophy and ethics. Hinton's arguments against outdated ways of thinking and his approach to human nature were revolutionary, and he took pains to address readers' doubts in a series of question-and-answer dialogues at the end of the book. Hinton's impassioned plea for a bolder spirit of enquiry to better interpret human existence assures this book an important place in the history of science.


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Ontological arguments
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ISBN: 1108686990 1108585620 1108664393 1108711847 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Proving the existence of God is a perennial philosophical ambition. An armchair proof would be the jackpot. Ontological arguments promise as much. This Element studies the most famous ontological arguments from Anselm, Descartes, Plantinga, and others besides. While the verdict is that ontological arguments don't work, they get us entangled in fun philosophical puzzles, from philosophy of religion to philosophy of language, from metaphysics to ethics, and beyond.

The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers
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ISBN: 0300000170 Year: 1982 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university

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