Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-824284-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC
In God's World and the Great Awakening, Professor Clark's main concern is with the way we can `turn aside' to the Truth from the normal delusions of self-concern. He restates a traditional, Neoplatonic metaphysics as the proper context for scientific and religious practice, and defends a serious Platonic realism against both scientism and anti-realism. Neither scientism, which identifies Truth with what can be revealed to the objectifying gaze, nor
fashionable anti-realism, which equates Truth simply with what `we' choose to take seriously, offer an adequate ground for our scientific or religious faith. The primary faith of humankind is that there is a real world which is more than an obsequious shadow of our desires and fancies, and this real world can be
discovered through right reason. The defence of this faith requires a properly worked, Platonic metaphysic of just the kind discernible in Christian orthodoxy.
The other two volumes are: Civil Peace and Sacred Order (1989) and A Parliament of Souls (1990).
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Realism and Divine Philosophy; Ideological Roots of Atheism; The Hebraic and Hellenic Loops; Living among Mysteries; Time and Incarnation; Waking from Delirium; God, Nature, and Natural Kinds; In Praise of Folly
