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Divine teaching and the way of the world : a defense of revealed religion
- Title
- Divine teaching and the way of the world : a defense of revealed religion / Samuel Fleischacker.
- Author
- Fleischacker, Samuel.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 559 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-541) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. The way of the world I: truth -- Introductory -- Truth in the state of nature -- Socialized truth -- Experts and authorities -- Part II. The way of the world II: ethics -- Introductory -- Application -- Motivation -- Transformation -- Teleology -- Part III. Beyond the way of the world: worth -- Dissolving the question -- Dismissing the question -- Worth as attached to specific activities -- Worth as attached to general features of life -- Kantian accounts of worth -- Secular versus religious visions of worth -- Part IV. Divine teaching -- Models of faith: trust, orientation, receptivity -- Revelation -- Aspects of revelation I: moral teaching -- Aspects of revelation II: beauty -- Aspects of revelation III: a path -- Receiving revelation -- Multiple revelations -- Part V. Divine teaching and the way of the world -- Truth again -- Morality again -- Politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Proofs of God -- Appendix II: Maimonides on the evidence for revelation -- Appendix III : Kant on art and natural beauty.
- Call Number
- *PNB 12-1249
- ISBN
- 9780199217366 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 019921736X (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011921147
- OCLC
- 746490033
- Author
- Fleischacker, Samuel.
- Title
- Divine teaching and the way of the world : a defense of revealed religion / Samuel Fleischacker.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-541) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- *PNB 12-1249