Philosophy and Religion: from Plato to postmodernism

contents......Page 6
THE REVOLUTION IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION......Page 8
VARIETIES OF PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION......Page 11
FIVE APPROACHES TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION......Page 13
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
PLATO’S PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGION......Page 23
ARISTOTLE: THE CONTEMPLATIVE IDEAL......Page 27
THE NEO-PLATONISTS: PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM......Page 33
MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND THE ‘TWO TRUTHS’ THEORY......Page 36
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: PURE REASON AND RELIGION......Page 40
SUMMARY AND EVALUATION......Page 46
INTRODUCTION......Page 54
PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA......Page 55
THE CHRISTIAN PLATONISTS......Page 57
ST AUGUSTINE ON FAITH AND REASON......Page 59
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES......Page 62
MOSES MAIMONIDES......Page 65
ST THOMAS AQUINAS......Page 70
TWO CRITICS OF AQUINAS’S POSITION......Page 81
CRITIQUE AND CONCLUSION......Page 86
AGNOSTICISM IN THE SERVICE OF FIDEISM......Page 92
AL GHAZZALI: THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS......Page 99
PASCAL: THE REASONS OF THE HEART......Page 101
DAVID HUME: SCEPTICISM AND FAITH......Page 104
KANT: RELIGION AND PRACTICAL REASON......Page 107
KIERKEGAARD: SPECULATION AND SUBJECTIVITY......Page 124
AGNOSTICISM AS A RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE......Page 137
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION WITHOUT METAPHYSICS......Page 140
LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS......Page 141
VERIFICATIONISM AND RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE......Page 143
REDUCTIVIST ACCOUNTS OF RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE......Page 145
LANGUAGE GAMES AND FORMS OF LIFE......Page 151
WITTGENSTEIN AND RELIGION......Page 153
POST-WITTGENSTEIN......Page 155
LANGUAGE GAMES AND REALITY......Page 157
REINSTATING METAPHYSICS......Page 159
POSTMODERNISM AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS......Page 162
POSTMODERNISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 163
THE ATTACK ON FOUNDATIONALISM......Page 165
ANTI-FOUNDATIONALISM AND THE RELIGIOUS DOMAIN......Page 167
POSTMODERNISM AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY......Page 169
HEIDEGGER AND DERRIDA......Page 171
DECONSTRUCTION AND THEOLOGY......Page 172
RORTY’S POSTMODERNISM AND SECULARISM......Page 175
CONCLUSION......Page 177
6 Conclusion......Page 180
notes......Page 184
index......Page 218