Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2023-03-20. Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing, humanistically, that we live in a "human world" inescapably colored by meaning, this book shows why the pursuit of meaningfulness is not ethically innocent but must be subjected to critique. Pragmatist critique of meaning both embraces critical humanism and rejects theodicies postulating ultimate meaning in suffering.
Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy
Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2023-05-05. Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays collected in this volume and authored by Sami Pihlström emphasize that our relation to the world we live in and seek to represent and get to know better through our practices of conceptualization and inquiry is irreducibly valuational. There is no way of even approaching, let alone resolving, the philosophical issue of realism without drawing due attention to the ways in which human values are inextricably entangled with even the most purely “factual” projects of inquiry we engage in. This entanglement of the factual and the normative is, as explicitly argued in Chapter 7 but implicitly suggested in all the other chapters as well, both pragmatic (practice-embedded and practice-involving) and transcendental (operating at the level of the necessary conditions for the possibility of our representing and cognizing the world in general). The author claims we need to carefully examine the complex relations of realism, value, and transcendental arguments at the intersection of pragmatism and analytic philosophy. This book does so by offering case-studies of various important neopragmatists and philosophers close to the pragmatist tradition, including Hilary Putnam, Nicholas Rescher, Joseph Margolis, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. It appeals to scholars and advanced graduate students focusing on pragmatism and analytic philosophy.
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2020-02-03. Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this remarkable book, Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops and defends an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a ‘God’s-Eye-View’ ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy. With its strong positions and precise arguments, the volume provides a new approach which is likely to stimulate discussion in the wider academic world of philosophy of religion.
Pragmatist Metaphysics
Pragmatist Metaphysics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatist Metaphysics write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2009-05-10. Pragmatist Metaphysics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a 'first philosophy', an inquiry into the world independent of human perspectives, the pragmatist views metaphysics as an inquiry into categorizations of reality laden with human practices. Insofar as our categorizations of reality are practice-laden, they are also, inevitably, value-laden. Sami Pihlström argues that metaphysics does not, then, study the world's 'own' categorial structure, but a structure we, through our conceptual and practical activities, impose on the reality we experience and interact with. Engaging with the classical American pragmatists, in particular William James, and neopragmatists, including Hilary Putnam, the author seeks to correct long-held misconceptions regarding the nature of the relationship between metaphysics and pragmatism. He argues that a coherent metaphysical alternative to the currently fashionable realist metaphysics emerges from pragmatism and that pragmatism itself should be reinterpreted in a metaphysically serious manner. Moreover, the book argues that, from a pragmatist perspective, metaphysics must be inextricably linked with ethics.
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy write by Sami Pihlström. This book was released on 2020. Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a “God's-Eye-View” ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy.
