Secularization
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-63870-6 (ISBN)
How can a value be unconditionally demanded? This question leads to an investigation of the self that combines Kant's ideas on the conditions of the possibility of experience with modern brain science, and to the metaphysical deliberation whether to prefer a world with creatures able to do both good and evil to one without them.
It is not enough, however, to point to facts. We rather need to understand what secularization, religion and their possible rationality consist in. Max Weber's sociology of religion has provided us with the conceptual means to do so, which this book develops.
Secularization is rediscovered as the same progress of rationality in the sphere of religion that we find in the development of the spheres of science, art, the economy and politics or public affairs. It proves to be the perfection rather than the dissolution of religion - a perfection that consists in recognizing authenticity as the successor of the absolute of religion.
Ulrich Steinvorth is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Steinvorth has written on Wittgenstein and Marx, moral and political philosophy, and applied ethics and metaphysics. He has taught in Germany and other European countries and in Turkey, Japan and China.
Introduction. - Chapter 1: Three theses. - Chapter 2: Similar views.- PART 1: A NEW SECULARIZATION THESIS.- Chapter 3: Intrinsic goals and sphere-immanent rationalities.- Chapter 4: Religion and the absolute.- Chapter 5: Authenticity, morality, and the post-Enlightenment absolute.- Chapter 6: Authenticity in ancient China and Rome.- Chapter 7: Montaigne's authenticity.- Chapter 8: Mortality and Montaignean authenticity.- Chapter 9: A naturalistic proof of the validity of the authenticity command.- Chapter 10: Three comments on the naturalistic proof.- Chapter 11: The thesis. PART 2: OBJECTIONS.- Chapter 12: Religion cannot be perfected, least of all by authenticity.- Chapter 13: Claims on the absolute must be infallible.- Chapter 14: Hegel's red herring.- Chapter 15: Rational metaphysics cannot relate to the absolute.- Chapter 16 Secular societies can do without anything absolute.- Chapter 17: Secularization is a unique Western development.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | VI, 223 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 414 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Schlagworte | Absolute • Aristotle • authenticity • Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Ethics & moral philosophy • extrinsic goals • intrinsic goals • metaphysical norms • Metaphysics • Morality • Moral Philosophy • Mortality • Philosophy • Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology • Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology • Philosophy of Religion • Plato • Religion • Religion and Philosophy • Richard Rorty • Social & Political Philosophy • Social Philosophy • Social & political philosophy • Weberian rationalization |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-63870-X / 331963870X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-63870-6 / 9783319638706 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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