The Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian Blaga and Contemporary PhilosophyFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2006 - 287 pages Lucian Blaga was an early twentieth-century European philosopher whose work was suppressed at the height of his career by the creation of the Romanian Socialist Republic. Blaga's philosophical writings are rich and creative, spanning metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, philosophy of history, and philosophy of religion. Mircea Eliade wrote that Blaga was the most gifted and critical original thinker in the history of Romanian philosophy. Because of historical circumstances, Blaga's philosophy has not become known outside of his own country, although within Romania it continues to be read and discussed. Were it to become known outside of Romania, Blaga's philosophy could provide interesting contributions to contemporary philosophical discussions. The thesis of this book is that Blaga's philosophy can make valuable contributions to contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. In order to support this thesis, Blaga's philosophical system is explained in detail so that the reader may see how it can be applied to a variety of philosophical issues. philosophy of religion in order to demonstrate that it can contribute to contemporary Anglo-American discussions. Michael S. Jones is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Liberty University. |
Contents
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Blagas Philosophy of Philosophy | 42 |
Blagas Metaphysics | 58 |
Blagas Epistemology | 77 |
Blagas Philosophy of Religion | 138 |
Application of Blagas Philosophy | 153 |
The Nature of Philosophy of Religion | 155 |
The Problem of Religious Language | 170 |
The Question of Religious Knowledge | 182 |
The Justification of Religious Beliefs | 196 |
The Existence and Nature of | 207 |
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22 | 94 |
42 | 98 |
58 | 102 |
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Blagas Philosophy of Culture | 119 |
Religion and Science Religion vs Science | 217 |
The Problem of Interreligious Communication | 227 |
The Problem of Religious Pluralism | 234 |
Conclusion 234 | 248 |
Glossary Bibliography | 252 |
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Page 200 - ... the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 219 - Paul Feyerabend, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (London: New Left Books, 1975).
Page 219 - Paul Tillich, The System of the Sciences according to Objects and Methods.
Page 160 - An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989); John Hick, A Christian Theology of Religions: The Rainbow of Faiths (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1995).
Page 183 - Flew, Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?: The Resurrection Debate, ed. Terry L. Miethe (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987), 125-35.
Page 207 - Theologica questions 75-87, especially question 75, which is a refutation of the objections that the soul is corporeal, in Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. Anton C. Pegis (New York: Random House, Inc., 1948), 280-428.
Page 197 - And deceive me as he will, he can never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something. Thus it must be granted that, after weighing everything carefully and sufficiently, one must come to the considered judgment that the statement "I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time it is uttered by me or conceived in my mind.
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