- Fresh view on the science vs. religion debate
- Takes an analytic approach to humanism, philosophy, and religion
- Uses research in psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology
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In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cultural activities are rooted.
Human beings have to relate themselves to the entirety of their lives to achieve orientation. This relation involves a non-methodical, meaningful experience that exhibits the crucial features for understanding worldviews: it comprises cognition, volition, and emotion, is embodied, action-oriented, and expressive. From this starting-point, religious and secular worldviews articulate what is experienced as ultimately meaningful. Yet the plurality and one-sidedness of these life stances necessitates critical engagement for which philosophy provides indispensable means. In the end, some worldviews can be ruled out, but we are still left with a plurality of genuine options for orientation.
- Über den Autor
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Matthias Jung is full professor of philosophy at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (7 Kapitel)
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Introduction: Orientation as a Life-Function
Seiten 1-31
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Science versus Scientism: Is There Such a Thing as the Scientific Worldview?
Seiten 33-80
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Varieties of Naturalism and Humanism
Seiten 81-106
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Rediscovering the Importance of Ordinary Experience
Seiten 107-132
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The Unavoidability of Worldviews
Seiten 133-167
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (7 Kapitel)
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Bibliografische Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Buchtitel
- Science, Humanism, and Religion
- Buchuntertitel
- The Quest for Orientation
- Autoren
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- Matthias Jung
- Titel der Buchreihe
- Studies in Humanism and Atheism
- Copyright
- 2019
- Verlag
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Inhaber
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-21492-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-21492-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-21491-3
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- VIII, 230
- Anzahl der Bilder
- 1 schwarz-weiß Abbildungen
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