Divine teaching and the way of the world
Subtitle: a defense of revealed religion
By: Samuel Fleischacker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780199217366
Subjects: Religion; Philosophy; Religious aspects; Religion and ethics; Truth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-541) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. The way of the world I: truth; title: Introductory; title: Truth in the state of nature; title: Socialized truth; title: Experts and authorities; title: Part II. The way of the world II: ethics; title: Introductory; title: Application; title: Motivation; title: Transformation; title: Teleology; title: Part III. Beyond the way of the world: worth; title: Dissolving the question; title: Dismissing the question; title: Worth as attached to specific activities; title: Worth as attached to general features of life; title: Kantian accounts of worth; title: Secular versus religious visions of worth; title: Part IV. Divine teaching; title: Models of faith: trust, orientation, receptivity; title: Revelation; title: Aspects of revelation I: moral teaching; title: Aspects of revelation II: beauty; title: Aspects of revelation III: a path; title: Receiving revelation; title: Multiple revelations; title: Part V. Divine teaching and the way of the world; title: Truth again; title: Morality again; title: Politics; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix I: Proofs of God; title: Appendix II: Maimonides on the evidence for revelation; title: Appendix III : Kant on art and natural beauty.