Critique of religion and philosophy
By: by Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Series: Anchor Books -- A252; Anchor Books -- A252.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
Subjects: Religion; Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-446) and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical psychology; title: The psychology of truth; title: Style; title: The philosopher's dilemma; title: The philosophic flight; title: A series of etchings; title: Hegel and Nietzsche; title: Why most philosophers cannot laugh; title: What long aphorisms can mean; title: Relativity and criticism; title: Two revolts; title: Analytic philosophy; title: Existentialism; title: Two timeless tendencies; title: Empiricism as empiricide; title: Plato's vision of man; title: The British vision of man; title: Donnish doubt; title: Wittgenstein; title: Wittgenstein and Socrates; title: Followers; title: Truth; true and false; title: The aspiration for truth; title: Truth and correctness; title: Truth and meaning, or: how to read a philosopher; title: Theories of truth; title: Words and experience; title: Language and emotion; title: "Love"; title: Words as categories; title: Works of art as categories; title: Common sense; title: Definitions of religion; title: Religion at the bar; title: "Subjective" truth; title: Knowledge, belief, and faith; title: Faith, evidence, and James; title: Three types of religious propositions; title: Recourse to revelation or miracles; title: Faith and its causes: contra James; title: Seven causes; title: Freud and wishful thinking; title: Godless religions; title: Plato's proof that gods exist; title: St. Thomas Aquinas; title: Perfection and the ontological argument; title: Kant's postulate; title: Can one prove God's existence?; title: Pascal's wager; title: God and ambiguity; title: The ambiguity of dogma; title: Analogy; title: Symbols: contra Tillich; title: Demythologizing and valuations; title: Contra Bultmann; title: Gerrymandering; title: Theology; title: Dialogue between Satan and a theologian; title: Dialogue between Satan and a Christian; title: Dialogue between Satan and an atheist; title: Religion and truth; title: Buddhism and truth; title: Zen Buddhism and truth; title: Judaism and truth; title: Jewish and Christian faith; title: Infidel piety; title: Liberal Protestantism and truth; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and truth; title: A Platonic error, reason, and Christianity; title: Christianity and truth; title: Claims for mysticism; title: Ineffability; title: Mysticism as a historical phenomenon; title: Criteria of mystical experience; title: The experience of inspiration; title: Mysticism, inspiration, and religion; title: Contra Fromm: religion and tragedy; title: Religion and loyalty; title: Thomist versus non-Thomist; title: Loyalty and truth; title: Religion, aspiration, and the holy; title: Otherworldliness; title: Religion and poetry; title: Inexhaustibility; title: The psychology of interpretation; title: Explanation; title: Inconsistencies; title: Quellenscheidung; title: The two Mosaic theories; title: Religion and progress; title: The Gospels and poetry; title: A Buddhist text; title: Against eclecticism; title: Plato as educator; title: The uncloistered virtue; title: Kant and Freud; title: Freud and aspiration; title: Man's ontological interest; title: Reason and aspiration; title: Epitaph.