Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs

James C. Carter is Tutor in Philosophy and Theology at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford, UK. Daniel Whistler is a Doctoral Candidate at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Joseph Carlisle is a Doctoral Candidate at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK.

"A fertile collection of papers, which supports the hope that current moral philosophy might break out of the specialised confines of narrow intellectual debate and recover its traditional role of coming to terms with the human condition in all its rich ethical and psychological complexity. The fascinating opening essay by Raimond Gaita, and many of the papers that follow, explore the interface between moral and religious thinking, and reach towards a more humane conception of philosophizing - one that takes us beyond abstract theorizing to the task of understanding what it would be to live in a more meaningful way." -- John Cottingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, and Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London, UK.

• Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; CLUSTER ONE: SELF/OTHER RELATIONS; 1. Morality, Metaphysics and Religion Raimond Gaita (Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London); 2. Love, Hate and Moral Inclusion Anca Gheaus (Research Fellow in Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam); 3. The Discipline of Pius Reason: Goethe, Herder, Kant Daniel Whistler (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford); CLUSTER TWO: THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE; 4. On Loss of Confidence: Dissymmetry, Doubt, Deprivation in the Power to Act and (the Power) to Suffer Pamela Sue Anderson (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford); 5. The Passionate Life: On Grief and Human Experience James Carter (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford); 6. A Ricoeurian Hymn to Humanity: "You are better than your actions" Michele Kueter Petersen (Doctoral Candidate in Modern Religious Thought, University of Iowa); CLUSTER THREE: PHILOSOPHY VIA ART; 7. Love and Transcendence Martin Warner (Associate Fellow in Philosophy, University of Warwick); 8. Philosophy, Morality and the Self: Against Thinness Christopher Hamilton (Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, King's College London); 9. The Holy Doubt: Jack Kerouac and Postmodernism Joseph Carlisle (Doctoral Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford); CLUSTER FOUR: THE VITALITY OF BELIEF; 10. Religion in its Material Context: Some Considerations Drawn from Contemporary Philosophies of Place Mark Wynn (Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Exeter); 11. Play, Psychoanalysis and Feminist Philosophy of Religion Beverley Clack (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University); 12. Religious Belief and the Disregard of Reality Brian Clack (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of San Diego).