John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a PersonRoutledge, 2016 M05 6 - 276 páginas Recent dissatisfaction with individualism and the problems of religious pluralism make this an opportune time to reassess the way in which we define ourselves and conduct our relationships with others. The philosophical writings of John Macmurray are a useful resource for performing this examination, and recent interest in Macmurray's work has been growing steadily. A full-scale critical examination of Macmurray's religious philosophy has not been published and this work fills this gap, sharing his insistence that we define ourselves through action and through person-to-person relationships, while critiquing his account of the ensuing political and religious issues. The key themes in this work are the concept of the person and the ethics of personal relations. |
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... Descartes. He bases this renunciation on what he assumes is the common experience for every human; that is, the interaction of mind and body. Further, such interaction is most apparent, he holds, in action. Hence by asserting the ...
... Descartes' philosophical theory, for Macmurray's purpose, is Descartes' statement that 'I [my soul] am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it' (Descartes, 1984, p. 54). Descartes is confident in the reality of his own ...
... (Descartes, 1984, p. 19). Furthermore, Descartes acknowledges that these special modes of thinking involve physiological activity which, he suggests, is located in the brain or, more specifically, the pineal gland (ibid., p. 340). It ...
... Descartes' philosophy receives, Kant remains a dualist, inasmuch as he still speaks of the self as thinker and of the mind as an item that is not contingent on matter for its existence. Nevertheless, since he does not present mind and ...
... Descartes, Kant's depiction of the person as a rational and isolated agent receives sharp criticism from Macmurray (SA, pp. 63–73). In addition, he considers Kant's analysis of the relation between theoretical and practical activity to ...
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Developing as a Person | 59 |
Persons and Politics | 97 |
Persons and Religion | 147 |
Conclusion | 201 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Index | 255 |
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John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person Esther McIntosh Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person Esther McIntosh Vista previa limitada - 2016 |
John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy: What it Means to be a Person Esther McIntosh Vista previa limitada - 2011 |