Critique of Religion and PhilosophyFrom one of the major figures of twentieth-century intellectual life, an incisive critique of faith and reason in the secular age |
Contents
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Style | 6 |
The philosophers dilemma | 7 |
The philosophic flight | 9 |
A series of etchings | 10 |
Hegel and Nietzsche | 11 |
Why most philosophers cannot laugh | 13 |
Faith evidence and James | 114 |
Three types of religious propositions | 120 |
Recourse to revelation or miracles | 124 |
contra James | 129 |
Seven causes | 132 |
Freud and wishful thinking | 134 |
THE GOD OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 43 Godless religions | 137 |
Platos proof that gods exist | 139 |
What long aphorisms can mean | 14 |
1o Relativity and criticism | 17 |
POSITIVISM AND EXISTENTIALISM 11 Two revolts | 20 |
Analytic philosophy | 22 |
Existentialism | 26 |
i4 Two timeless tendencies | 31 |
Empiricism as empiricide | 34 |
Platos vision of man | 37 |
The British vision of man | 41 |
Donnish doubt | 47 |
Wittgenstein | 52 |
2O Wittgenstein and Socrates | 56 |
Followers | 60 |
TRUTH LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE 22 Truth True and false | 62 |
The aspiration for truth | 63 |
Truth and correctness | 66 |
How to read a philosopher | 69 |
Theories of truth | 74 |
Words and experience | 78 |
Language and emotion | 79 |
Love | 82 |
Words as categories | 85 |
Works of art as categories | 91 |
Common sense | 93 |
RELIGION FAITH AND EVIDENCE Definitions of religion | 100 |
Religion at the bar | 104 |
Subjective truth | 107 |
Knowledge belief and faith | 108 |
St Thomas Aquinas | 143 |
Perfection and the ontological argument | 162 |
Kants postulate | 166 |
GOD AMBIGUITY AND THEOLOGY | 173 |
The ambiguity of dogma | 181 |
contra Tillich | 189 |
Demythologizing and valuations | 196 |
Contra Bultmann | 206 |
Gerrymandering | 219 |
Dialogue between Satan and a Theologian | 228 |
Dialogue between Satan and a Christian | 243 |
6o Dialogue between Satan and an Atheist | 255 |
Buddhism and truth | 261 |
Judaism and truth | 268 |
Jewish and Christian faith | 278 |
Infidel piety | 285 |
Reinhold Niebuhr and truth | 296 |
A Platonic error reason and Christianity | 303 |
Christianity and truth | 311 |
SCRIPTURES AND POETRY OR How | 369 |
Quellenscheidung | 377 |
Religion and progress | 388 |
A Buddhist text | 396 |
Against eclecticism | 405 |
Freud and aspiration | 416 |
1OO Epitaph | 431 |