Dialogues On Relativism Absolutism And Beyond

Author : Michael Krausz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442209305
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues on Relativism, Absolutism, and Beyond written by Michael Krausz and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is truth, goodness, or beauty? Can we really define these concepts without the idea of a frame of reference? In the newest addition to the New Dialogues in Philosophy series, Michael Krausz presents fictional dialogues between four former classmates who hold significantly different views about these questions. As they travel in India, a place with unfamiliar concepts and customs, these four friends debate the rightness of relativism and absolutism. Are these concepts irreconcilable? Might there be a better view that goes beyond both of them? These lively discussions provide students with an accessible introduction to one of the most enduring and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age.

Author : Vladimir Latinovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137507306
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathways for Inter-Religious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century written by Vladimir Latinovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age. While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions and looks forward, toward the possibility of real and lasting dialogue. The book centers upon inter-faith issues. It identifies problems that stand in the way of fostering healthy dialogues both within particular religious traditions and between faiths. The volume's contributors strive for a realization of already existing common ground between religions. They engagingly explore how inter-religious dialogue can be re-energized for a new century.

Author : Michael Krausz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900438801X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots in the Air written by Michael Krausz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By way of dialogues, Michael Krausz offers philosophical reflections about his life as a philosopher, artist, and musician. After providing biographical accounts of his years of experience in these areas, he rehearses his views about relativism, interpretation, creativity, and self-realization.

Author : Jack W. Meiland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativism, Cognitive and Moral written by Jack W. Meiland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine M. Koggel
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149855475X
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity written by Christine M. Koggel and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz addresses three major philosophical themes: interpretation, relativism, and identity. It does so by focusing on Krausz’s distinctive exploration of the relationship between interpretation and ontology, the varieties of relativism, and the interpretive dimension of identity construction. Throughout the years, Krausz has participated in exchanges between people who embrace opposing views about reality, human selves, and the attachments or detachments between them. In these exchanges, life orientations are at stake as much as conceptual distinctions. These exchanges are reflected in a discussion among renowned scholars in philosophy and literary studies not only on Krausz’s work but also on the significant philosophical implications of key issues for how we understand the human condition, our commitments and values, the meaning of religious and artistic texts, and the way we make sense of our lives and ourselves. The contributors to this volume engage with all of these concerns in their dialogue with Krausz and with one another. The range and versatility of Krausz’s conceptual apparatus can benefit students and scholars with interests in interpretative endeavors, different ontological commitments, and various conceptual priorities and preferences.

Author : Stella Adamma Nneji
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984515594
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Intolerance written by Stella Adamma Nneji and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no gainsaying the fact that the problem of religious intolerance has become a worldwide problem. In todays pluralistic society, the dialogical tension between openness and identity has become a major challenge for interreligious dialogue and peaceful co-existence. This tension is expressed in the question, Can one maintain ones own religious identity without one closing oneself off from the other? This question is central to the challenges posed on how religious education can contribute to sustainable peace in Nigeria and the world over. In this book Stella Nneji critically assesses the various models of religious pedagogy (mono-religious, multi-religious and inter-religious) by asking how these models relate to the dialogical tension between openness and identity in Nigeriaa nation perceivably confronted with an enduring history of post-colonial strife, religious intolerance and violence. The contention is that the mono-religious and multi-religious models, which, while dominant in current practice and in academia, nevertheless fall short of expressing the authentic challenges and opportunities religious intolerance presents in Nigerian multi-religious/cultural context. In this connection, this book provides a clear notion of the theological foundation, principles, and framework of inter-religious education and a practical guide for authentic dialogue in a plural context. She calls for a paradigm shift for confessional religious pedagogy to a model of inter-religious learning as incorporated within the hermeneutical-communicative education. On this basis, the book proposes a new model for the role of religious education in Nigeria. This model in a critical-enculturated way, attempts to recognize the tensions of authentic religious difference, presupposing a broad spectrum of difference in the classroom in a way that also incorporates genuine religious encounters and expressions of identity.

Author : Alyssa Luboff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030433412
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Relativism written by Alyssa Luboff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the difficult task of defending relativism in the age of science. It succeeds where others have failed by combining the rigor of analytic philosophy with the first-hand insights of anthropological experience. Typically, an anthropologist’s work on relativism offers rich examples of cultural diversity, but lacks philosophical rigor, while a philosopher’s work on relativism offers rigorous argumentation, but lacks rich anthropological examples. Facing Relativism, written by a North American philosopher who lived in the Ecuadorian rainforest, does both. Relativism at a global scale is a view that our claims about the world, both theoretical and practical, are evaluable only relative to a context shaped by factors such as culture, history, language, and environment – or, “a way of life.” It can be at once intuitive and disturbing. While we might expect a way of life to exert some influence on our claims, relativism seems to move to the overly strong conclusion that all of our claims about what is true or good must merely be expressions of cultural bias. It easily opens itself to a host of charges, including paradox and self-contradiction. Facing Relativism argues that such problems arise largely from a failure to situate the view within the context that has, throughout its long history, been its inspiration: the experience – whether through literature, the imagination, or direct anthropological contact – of deeply engaging with a very different way of life. By starting with a careful analysis of the experience of deep engagement, this book shows that relativism is neither as incoherent nor as alarming as we tend to think. In fact, it might just offer the tools we need to face these times of global crisis and change. Alyssa Luboff has produced an exceptional defense of a cultural relativism that recognizes how the epistemic and the ethical intertwine in a way of life. Drawing from her deep engagement over many years with the Chachi and traditional Afro-Ecuadorian people, she provides vivid and compelling examples of how one can come to understand another way of life as well-reasoned, coherent, and integrated, as challenging to one’s own commitments at the same time that one challenges it. Luboff combines her deep engagement with command of the relevant philosophical and anthropological literature. She presents the major arguments against relativism in a sympathetic and generous way, and carefully responds with a sophisticated relativism that acknowledges how the world resists and responds to different conceptual shapings of it. This book is beautifully written and will engage both the academic specialist and the intelligent general reader. – David Wong, Duke University By the time her brilliant faceoff is over, philosophical relativism will never again be seen as a straw man. – Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago This book will interest readers who seek an astute account of how the pursuit of “truth” – whether relative or absolute – enters into practices of power. Luboff ’s treatment is impressive. – Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr College and Linacre College, Oxford University

Author : John J. Stuhr
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018978
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Fashions written by John J. Stuhr and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism.

Author : Wojciech Chojna
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004357181
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature written by Wojciech Chojna and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna makes Ingarden’s philosophy of literature more consistent with Husserl’s phenomenology and more immune to both absolutism and relativism. The latter is overcome not through falling back on essentialism but from within itself.

Author : Michael Krausz
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209065
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oneness and the Displacement of Self written by Michael Krausz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- PROLOGUE -- ONENESS AND DEATH -- ONENESS AND SELF-REALIZATION -- LOVE AND MEDITATION -- INTENTIONALITY AND RATIONALITY -- LIMITS OF LANGUAGE -- THE DISPLACEMENT OF SELF -- FOR FURTHER READING -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.