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Samuel Fleischacker - The Good and the Good Book, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

The Good and the Good Book

Revelation as a Guide to Life

Av Samuel Fleischacker

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'It is written ...,' says the believer in a sacred text, and proceeds to justify all manner of terrifying things. Or so runs a popular caricature of religious faith today. Religions that center around a revelation--around a 'good book,' like the Torah or Gospels or Quran, which is seen as God's word--are widely regarded as irrational and dangerous: as based on outdated science and conducive to illiberal, inhumane moral attitudes. The Good and the Good Book defends revealed religion and shows how it can be reconciled with science and liberal morality. Samuel Fleischacker invites us to see revealed texts as aiming to teach neither scientific nor moral doctrines but a vision of what life is about overall. Purely naturalistic ways of thinking, he argues, cannot make much sense of our overall or ultimate good; revealed texts, by contrast, do precisely that. But these texts also need to be interpreted so as to accord with our independent understanding of morality. A delicate balance is required for this process of interpretation—between respecting the uncanny obscurity of our sacred texts and rendering them morally familiar. The book concludes with an account of how believers in one religion can respect believers in other religions, and secular people.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-07-27
  • Mått: 137 x 217 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 230 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 174
  • Förlag: OUP OXFORD
  • ISBN: 9780198807551
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Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His previous work has focused on Enlightenment moral and political thought, especially that of Kant and Adam Smith, and on conceptions of culture, liberalism, and distributive justice. He is the author of Divine Teaching and the Way of the World (OUP, 2011), On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton University Press, 2004), and A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 2004), and editor of Heidegger's Jewish Followers (Duquesne University Press, 2008). He is Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

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It isn't easy to say something powerful and accessible in Jewish theology, but Samuel Fleischacker has in this brief, elegant volume done just that. With lucidity, rich learning worn lightly, deep moral and religious commitment, and rich humanity, he illuminates the meaning of revealed religion for traditional communities and their thoughtful critics alike. A very good book about the good book, and the other good books too.

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