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M.J. Charlesworth

Autor(a) de Religious Worlds

38 Works 220 Membros 3 Reviews

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Obras de M.J. Charlesworth

Religious Worlds (1985) 27 cópias
Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology (1984) — Editor — 27 cópias
Philosophy for beginners (2007) 7 cópias
Religiões do Mundo 1 exemplar(es)

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male
Nacionalidade
Australia

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This is a small book, borne of a series of lectures, which deals with the issue of science and what exactly constitutes it. Using histories of the five scientists/philosophers in the sub-title, the book discusses the various positions these people held on the nature of science and the dictatorship it has over 'the' way of describing reality. It is a succinct introduction to the philosophy of science, and by using the writings and thoughts of a few key figures, describes a tidy history of the controversies over the nature of the scientific method.… (mais)
 
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LovingLit | Mar 16, 2016 |
So, he wants NO regulation because he's (socially) liberal (a different tune today), then he calls for overall, general agreement (thinking - presuming there IS or WOULD BE such overarching general agreement without anything more than 'respect for distributed autonomy')!
 
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vegetarian | Aug 3, 2012 |
This book discusses five broadly historical phases of the philosophy of religion. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are the religions that have been entangled with Greek philosophy and are such the main religious subjects of the book. If one sees one of the main purposes of religion as the resolution of the problem of the scope of human reason (a reasoning man has evolved driven by limited environmental experience but by that evolved reason he thinks he can understand his life and the universe), then Plato’s philosophy of religion brings the solution back into the problem and as such was a huge mistake. From this perspective, Max Charlesworth’s book can be seen as the history of a gradual retreat of philosophy from the sphere of religion, a gradual reversal of Plato’s big mistake.

Criticisms? I was going to raise a few objections here to some of the arguments put foreword in the book but I have reconsidered. A review is not really the place for a debate. I will say that the reader should read this book critically, carefully and thoughtfully. The frustrating thing about a book like this is that you can’t sit down with the author and discuss it. I was reading this book on my daily train trip to work and several of the trips were done while I pondered a single page.

I will say that I was a little disappointed with the conclusion. The conclusion is a short chapter discussing some very good reasons for the book having no conclusions. I think even academic readers would have forgiven the author for some unsupported personal opinion here.

As a Zen Buddhist (why would a Zen Buddhist read a book entitled “Philosophy and Religion”? you may well ask) I found some surprising echoes in Kant’s Practical Reason and in the later sections of the book. I have had some informal exposure to Western Philosophy but I had somehow failed to understand the deeply spiritual project of Kant’s work and which is really continued in post-modernists like Derrida.

To readers confronted by the pseudo-rational skepticism and atheism of recent years, this book will arm you.

This is a superb book. 5 stars.
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marq | Oct 31, 2010 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
38
Membros
220
Popularidade
#101,715
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Resenhas
3
ISBNs
45
Idiomas
4

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