E-Book, Englisch, 106 Seiten
Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet
Honnacker Pragmatic Humanism Revisited
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-02441-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
An Essay on Making the World a Home
E-Book, Englisch, 106 Seiten
Reihe: Psychology and Our Planet
ISBN: 978-3-030-02441-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors like William James and F.C.S. Schiller, it highlights a fundamentally humanist strand of pragmatism aimed at fostering human creativity and transformative action. It is grounded in everyday experience and underlines our responsibility to strive for the better. Ana Honnacker traces perspectives on science, religion, and ethics in the light of a pragmatic understanding of humanism. Furthermore, she suggests how to address the existential challenges we face today. Thus, pragmatic humanism is explored not only as a philosophy for critical minds, but also as a way of life.
Ana Honnacker is Assistant Professor at the Hanover Institute for Philosophical Research, Germany.




