Humanism and Embodiment

From Cause and Effect to Secularism

Susan E. Babbitt (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2014
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-2914-5 (ISBN)

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A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community.

Susan Babbitt’s original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, paralleling naturalistic realism in recent analytic epistemology and philosophy of science. Considering the nature of knowledge, particularly the radical contingency of knowledge claims upon causal mechanisms, religious thinkers like Thomas Merton and Ivan Illich offer more scientific conceptions of practical deliberation than are offered by some non-religious ethicists. Drawing on philosophical sources such as Marxism, Buddhism and Christianity, this original study considers implications of an embodied conception of reason, revealing philosophical, practical and political implications.

Susan E. Babbitt is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Humanism and embodiment: Three sources
2. Humanism and global development ethics
3. Alienation and authenticity
4. Mystics, anti-imperialists and fear of contingency
5. Secularism, ethics, philosophy: Against philosophical liberalism
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4725-2914-6 / 1472529146
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-2914-5 / 9781472529145
Zustand	Neuware