McIntosh John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy

What it Means to be a Person
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-11062-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Recent dissatisfaction with individualism and the problems of religious pluralism make this an opportune time to reassess the way in which we define ourselves and conduct our relationships with others. The philosophical writings of John Macmurray are a useful resource for performing this examination, and recent interest in Macmurray's work has been growing steadily. A full-scale critical examination of Macmurray's religious philosophy has not been published and this work fills this gap, sharing his insistence that we define ourselves through action and through person-to-person relationships, while critiquing his account of the ensuing political and religious issues. The key themes in this work are the concept of the person and the ethics of personal relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIntosh, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; Part I The Essence of the Person: Agency theory; Education and the emotions. Part II Developing as a Person: The human infant; Growth to adulthood. Part III Persons and Politics: Societies and communities; Justice and the state. Part IV Persons and Religion: Against idealism in religion; Religion and morality; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Esther McIntosh, Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Theology, York St John University, UK