Between Naturalism and Religion Philosophical Essays

Name: Between Naturalism and Religion Philosophical Essays
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ISBN: 9780745638256

ISBN-10: 0745638252

ISBN-13: 9780745638256

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jï¿½rgen Habermas, Ciaran Cronin

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Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Drawing on both contemporary scientific advances and the revitalization of religious practices Jrgen Habermas explores the fundamental tension between naturalism and religion.

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 6/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Jï¿½rgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.



Introduction



The Intersubjective Constitution of Norm-governed Thought



Public Space and Political Public Sphere - The Biographical Roots of Two Motifs in my Thought



Communicative Action and the Detranscendentalized "Use of Reason"



On the Architectonics of Discursive Differentiation: A Brief Response to a Major Controversy



Religious Pluralism and Civic Solidarity



Prepolitical Foundations of the Constitutional State?



Religion in the Public Sphere: Cognitive Presuppositions for the "Public Use of Reason" by Religious and Secular Citizens



Naturalism and Religion



Freedom and Determinism



"I Myself am Part of Nature" - Adorno on the Intrication of Reason in Nature: Reflections on the Relation between Freedom and Unavailability



The Boundary between Faith and Knowledge: On the Reception and Contemporary Importance of Kant's Philosophy of Religion



Tolerance



Religious Tolerance as Pacemaker for Cultural Rights



Equal Treatment of Cultures and the Limits of Postmodern Liberalism



A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society?


Index