Secularization
Subtitle: An Essay in Normative Metaphysics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 03, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783319638706
Description: This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational development of science and production.What is the value secularization propagates? Sifting historical texts, Steinvorth argues the value is authenticity, to be understood as being true to one?s talents developed in activities that are done for their own sake and provide life with meaning, and as unconditionally commanded.0.
Notes: Source title: Secularization: An Essay in Normative Metaphysics