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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion
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2023
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Humanism, Antitheodicism, and the Critique of Meaning in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion develops a distinctive approach to pragmatist philosophy of religion, and more generally to pragmatist investigations of the human search for meaning, by emphasizing what may be considered two closely interrelated main features of this tradition: humanism and antitheodicism. Humanism here emphasizes the need to focus on religion as a human practice within human concerns of meaningfulness and significance, as distinguished from any metaphysical search for cosmic meaning. Antitheodicism, in turn, stands for the refusal to accept any justification, divine or secular, for the experiences of meaninglessness that individuals undergoing horrendous suffering may have. Developing a critical form of pragmatism emphasizing these ideas, Sami Pihlström explores the relations between pragmatism and analytic philosophy in the philosophy of religion, especially regarding the question of religious meaning, as well as the significance of literature for philosophy of religion, with particular emphasis on William James's pragmatism.
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2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-66692-627-9
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978-1-6669-2628-6
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Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
246
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
A Pragmatist Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion No access Pages 25 - 44
Meaning, Metaphysics, and Humanism No access Pages 45 - 78
The Plurality of Pluralisms in William James No access Pages 79 - 104
A Poetic Pragmatism? No access Pages 105 - 138
The Problem of Suffering, (Secular) Theodicies, and Humanistic Antitheodicism No access Pages 139 - 168
Natural and Transcendental Illusions in a Kantian-Pragmatist Philosophical Anthropology No access Pages 169 - 194
Losing (One’s) Religion? No access Pages 195 - 216
