Anthony O'Hear

Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation (eBook, PDF)

From Philosophy to Religion

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductive materialistic ones, it shows some ways that reductive approaches to human affairs can distort the appreication of our lives and activities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000164060
• Artikelnr.: 59601867

Autorenporträt

Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK. From 1994-2019 he was Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Editor of Philosophy, its academic journal. He is the author of many books and articles on philosophy, including Karl Popper (1980), What Philosophy Is (1984), The Element of Fire (1988), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1989), Beyond Evolution (1997), Philosophy in the New Century (2001) and The Landscape of Humanity (2008). Picturing the Apocalypse (2015), co-authored with Natasha O'Hear, won the ACE/Mercers prize in 2017 as the best book internationally on art and religion. Anthony O'Hear was appointed OBE in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part One: Transcendence
Chapter One The Scope of Philosophy
Chapter Two Darwinian Tensions
Chapter Three Epistemology and the Anthropic Principle
Chapter Four The Lost Amazing Crown: The Meaning of Ruskin's Theoretic Faculty
Chapter Five The Great Absence: Scruton's Cognitive Dualism
Part Two: Creation and Incarnation
Chapter Six Why? Creation and Incarnation
Chapter Seven This is the Place: Reflections on the Reality of the Incarnation
Chapter Eight Conclusion
Appendix 'The Night' by Henry Vaughan and 'Love' by George Herbert