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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... Macmurray contends, the harmonious relation of persons requires 'communities'; a term which he explains by comparing functional relations with relations of equals. Macmurray insists that social organization by the state is a ...
... Macmurray's most significant contribution begins with his assertion that, thus far, the field of the personal has been inadequately expressed (c1914–36, 25 October 1929). He contends that impersonal analogies lead to theorizing about ...
... Macmurray aims to understand the nature of the person 'without assuming a dualistic classification' (a1935a, p. 278). Primarily then, he is arguing against Descartes' philosophy, which, he contends, is partly but not entirely overcome ...
... Macmurray contends, to detect the use of Cartesian dualism in the Kantian system. According to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Descartes' cogito ergo sum demonstrates the existence of thought, but it does not impart any knowledge 'of ...
... Macmurray contends, points towards the uniting of these dualisms. For example, the Kantian insistence that noumena cannot be known implies that knowledge must be empirical; that is, drawn from phenomena. In fact, in his second Critique ...
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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 |