The Humane Perspective
Philosophical Reflections on Human Nature, the Search for Meaning, and the Role of Religion
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198918912
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 240x160x17 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English 536
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Short description:
This collection brings together some of the most important papers in moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion of an author who has been a standard-bearer for a distinctive and original philosophical approach, shedding fresh light on many of the key issues in moral philosophy and philosophy of religion.
MoreLong description:
The book brings together fourteen essays from the work of John Cottingham on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion spanning the past fifteen years. The papers are closely related in so far as they all deal with the perennial moral and spiritual challenges of human existence, and the search for meaning and value in human life. As well as being thematically linked, they also share a common style and methodology, illustrating the distinctive goal that has increasingly informed the author's work in recent years, that of promoting a more 'humane' conception of philosophizing. While in no way discarding the technical tools of the professional philosopher such as abstract argumentation and analysis, whose value and importance are unquestionable, this approach is notable for drawing on the full range of resources available to the human mind, including those that depend on literary, artistic, poetic, imaginative, aesthetic, and emotional modes of awareness. In contrast to the model of the philosopher as a kind of detached scrutineer, the essays exemplify the belief that there is a distinctive and valuable kind of philosophical understanding that requires a more involved and engaged stance. The philosophical questions dealt in the volume all fall broadly within the familiar domains of moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion, but the reflections offered on these areas of human thought and practice always aim to be sensitive to how morality and religion actually operate in the lives of the human beings involved.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part One: Manifesto and Method
The Humane Perspective
Appendix to Chapter 1: Conspectus of the Volume
What is Humane Philosophy and Why it is At Risk?
Part Two: Morality and Meaning
Integrity and Fragmentation
Happiness, Temporality, and Meaning
Philosophy, the Good Life, and Spirituality
Conversion, Self-discovery, and Moral Change
Part Three: Science and its Limits
Confronting the Cosmos: Scientific Rationality and Human Understanding
Transcending Science: Humane Models of Religious Understanding
Brain Laterality and Religious Awareness
Which Naturalism?
Part Four: Reaching for the Transcendent
Religion and the Mystery of Existence
From Desire to Encounter: the Human Quest for the Infinite
The Meaning of Life and Transcendence
Engagement, Immersion, and Enactment: the Role of Spiritual Praxis in Religious Belief
Bibliography
Index
