Sentences with phrase «contemporary philosophers of religion»
In his «friendly criticism,» which we enjoy, Ed regrets that we've given so much room to contemporary philosophers of religion, for example Richard Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga, who argue for «theistic personalism.»
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The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.
Perhaps not since the generation of the classic American philosophers — Pierce, Royce, James, Dewey and Mead (none of them technical philosophers in the contemporary meaning of the term)-- has it been possible to range so broadly over the great intellectual issues of the day and break the taboo that would separate religion from secular culture.
Along the way to proving his thesis, Jenkins rewrites the book on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (his reading, and his devastating criticisms of Oxford's influential Jonathan Barnes, set the standard for such scholarship) and he shows how even the most decorated of contemporary «philosophers of religion» (Plantinga, Stump, Penelhaum, et al.) grossly misread Aquinas.
«Ninety percent of contemporary philosophers see their principal task to be that of beating religion out of men's heads,» he wrote to his mother in 1961.
In fact, process philosophers have written relatively little about ethics in general; their major contributions to contemporary philosophy, like those of Whitehead himself, have been in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion.1
Samuel Loncar is a philosopher, scholar, and writer whose work critiques the categories through which modernity interprets itself and develops a new theory of the nature, relationship, and potential of philosophy, religion, science, politics and art in the contemporary world.