Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs: Essays in Moral and Religious Philosophy

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION......Page 12
CLUSTER 1: SELF/OTHER RELATIONS......Page 26
1. MORALITY, METAPHYSICS AND RELIGION......Page 28
2. LOVE, HATE AND MORAL INCLUSION......Page 54
3. THE DISCIPLINE OF PIOUS REASON: GOETHE, HERDER, KANT......Page 78
CLUSTER 2: THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE......Page 106
4. ON LOSS OF CONFIDENCE: DISSYMMETRY, DOUBT, DEPRIVATION IN THE POWER TO ACT AND (THE POWER) TO SUFFER......Page 108
5. THE PASSIONATE LIFE: ON GRIEF AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE......Page 134
6. A RICOEURIAN HYMN TO HUMANITY: ‘YOU ARE BETTER THAN YOUR ACTIONS’......Page 156
CLUSTER 3: PHILOSOPHY VIA ART......Page 180
7. LOVE AND TRANSCENDENCE......Page 182
8. PHILOSOPHY, MORALITY AND THE SELF: AGAINST THINNESS......Page 209
9. THE HOLY DOUBT: JACK KEROUAC AND POSTMODERNISM......Page 227
CLUSTER 4: THE VITALITY OF BELIEF......Page 244
10. RELIGION IN ITS MATERIAL CONTEXT: SOME CONSIDERATIONS DRAWN FROM CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHIES OF PLACE......Page 246
11. PLAY, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION......Page 268
12. RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND THE DISREGARD OF REALITY......Page 286
K......Page 314
W......Page 315