John Cottingham

Why Believe? (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why Believe? sees John Cottingham, a philosopher of searing intellectual honesty, examine our society's struggle with the concept of belief.

Cottingham's carefully reasoned yet impassioned account shows how the religious outlook connects with our deepest human longings, how it links up with our moral and aesthetic experience, how it is integrally involved in the quest for self understanding, and how it is not after all in conflict with a scientific understanding of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826439390
• Artikelnr.: 38241337

Autorenporträt

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. His much acclaimed recent titles include Philosophy and the Good Life, On the Meaning of Life and The Spiritual Dimension, and he is also well-known for his extensive writings in the history of philosophy and in ethics. He is President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, and Editor of the journal Ratio.

Inhaltsangabe

One: Belief and its Benefits \ 1. How believing affects living \ 2. How
believing works \ 3. Belief and human sensibilities \ 4. Belief and
integrity \ Two: Belief, Reason, Goodness \ 1. Yearnings and their
objective correlative \ 2. From benefits to reasons \ 3. God as source \ 4.
The best explanation? \ Three: Belief and the Unknown \ 1. The unknown God?
\ 2. Hume's critique \ 3. The problems of transcendence \ 4. Revelation and
the Incarnate Word \ Four: Obstacles to Belief \ 1. How difficult can it
get? \ 2. Supernatural intervention \ 3. Back to fundamentalism? \ 4.
Revelation and cognition \ Five: Belief and Meaning \ 1. Truth and
concealment \ 2. Evidence and accessibility \ 3. Vision and transformation
\ 4. Moral growth and spiritual conversion \ Six: Learning to Believe \ 1.
The lessons of life \ 2. Prevailing images of belief: exclusivism \ 3.
Ultimate responsibility \ 4. Souls and the afterlife \ Seven: Believing and
living \ 1. Providence and suffering \ 2. Humility and hope \ 3. Awe and
thanksgiving \ 4. 'Walk the believer's road!'