Title: History, religion, and spiritual democracy : essays in honor of Joseph L. Blau /
Authors: Blau, Joseph L. 1909-1986.; Wohlgelernter, Maurice.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Blau, Joseph L.; Religion Philosophy; Philosophy, American History.; Political science.; Judaism.; Jewish philosophy History.
Contents: Introduction. Joseph L. Blau : four ways of religion and philosophy / Maurice Wohlgelernter -- [Pt.] I. Naturalism and supernaturalism revisited -- 1. John Dewey : the evolution of faith / Steven C. Rockefeller -- 2. "The God of our children" : the humanist reconstruction of God / Raymond F. Bulman -- 3. The supernatural in the naturalists / William M. Shea -- 4. The esthetic, the religious, and the natural / James A. Martin, Jr. -- [Pt.] II. Perspectives on the history of Judaism -- 5. Dating a Mishnah-tractate : the case of Tamid / Jacob Neusner -- 6. The creator and the computer / David R. Blumenthal -- 7. Martin Buber and the no-self perspective / Edith Wyschogrod -- [Pt.] III. American philosophical reflections -- 8. Asa Mahan and the Oberlin philosophy / Edward H. Madden -- 9. Spires of influence : the importance of Emerson for classical American philosophy / John J. McDermott -- 10. Santayana and the ideal of reason / Douglas Greenlee -- 11. The development of William James's epistemological realism / Peter H. Hare and Chandana Chakrabarti -- [Pt.] IV. The teacher as moral agent -- 12. The new censors of science / Paul Kurtz -- 13. Equality and excellence in the democratic ideal / David L. Norton -- 14. Toward a post-enlightenment doctrine of human rights / Roger L. Shinn -- 15. Schooling and the search for a usable politics / Howard B. Radest -- Joseph L. Blau : a bibliography / Sam DeKay.