Audi's qualified acceptance of the possibility of secular human flourishing is most welcome, as some Christian apologists have suggested the denial of this.
Allan Hazlett, Mind
Rationality and Religious Commitment shows how religious commitment can be rational and describes the place of faith in the postmodern world. It portrays religious commitment as far more than accepting doctrines--it is viewed as a kind of life, not just as an embrace of tenets. Faith is conceived as a unique attitude. It is irreducible to belief but closely connected with both belief and conduct, and intimately related to life's moral, political, and aesthetic dimensions.
Part One presents an account of rationality as a status attainable by mature religious people--even those with a strongly scientific habit of mind. Part Two describes what it means to have faith, how faith is connected with attitudes, emotions, and conduct, and how religious experience may support it.
Part Three turns to religious commitment and moral obligation and to the relation between religion and politics. It shows how ethics and religion can be mutually supportive even though ethics provides standards of conduct independently of theology. It also depicts the integrated life possible for the religiously committed--a life with rewarding interactions between faith and reason, religion and science, and the aesthetic and the spiritual.
The book concludes with two major accounts. One explains how moral wrongs and natural disasters are possible under God conceived as having the knowledge, power, and goodness that make such evils so difficult to understand. The other account explores the nature of persons, human and divine, and yields a conception that can sustain a rational theistic worldview even in the contemporary scientific age.
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Can it be rational to be religious? Robert Audi gives a persuasive positive answer through an account of rationality and a rich, nuanced understanding of what religious commitment means. It is not just a matter of belief, but of emotions and attitudes such as faith and hope, of one's outlook on the world, and of commitment to live in certain ways.
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PART I: EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: RATIONALITY, JUSTIFICATION, AND KNOWLEDGE ; PART II. THE DIMENSIONS OF RATIONAL RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT ; PART III. THE RATIONALITY OF RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD
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Powerful defence of religion as a rational way of living
Offers a fuller understanding of what it means to be religious
Major new work from one of America's leading philosophers
Clearly written: accessible to non-specialists
Shows that religion is not incompatible with a scientific worldview
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Robert Audi is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character (OUP, 1997), The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality (OUP, 2001), Moral Value and Human Diversity (OUP, 2007), Business Ethics and Ethical Business (OUP, 2009), and Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State
(OUP, forthcoming in 2011).
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Powerful defence of religion as a rational way of living
Offers a fuller understanding of what it means to be religious
Major new work from one of America's leading philosophers
Clearly written: accessible to non-specialists
Shows that religion is not incompatible with a scientific worldview
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9780199686612
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
540 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
157 mm
Thickness
26 mm
Age
G, UP, 01, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author