On Selfhood and Godhood, Volumul 2Psychology Press, 2002 - 472 pagini First published in 2002. This is Volume II of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Religion. The Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different schools of Thought - Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects - Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. Written in 1957, this book is a collection of the Gifford Lectures on the topic of selfhood and godhood delivered at the University of St. Andrews during Sessions 1953-54 and 1954-55 that have been revised and expanded. |
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LECTURE I | 3 |
Various criticisms of judgmenttheory of cognition stated | 4 |
Implications of judgmenttheory in respect of cognising | 5 |
Faint influence of Ottos central thesis upon fundamental | 6 |
Breakdown of relational theory encourages a more sym | 7 |
What is precise claim for competence of reason in field | 12 |
Is our answer to d merely a linguistic recommendation | 13 |
reason in the field of religious truth viz as ultimate arbiter | 18 |
A Reply to Mr NowellSmith | 214 |
LECTURE XI | 231 |
and considered usage of educated men sources of frequent | 235 |
to be b endued with transcendent value failure to recognise | 241 |
Mystery Value Power the basic characteristics of | 247 |
In terms of definition reached question Is religion true? | 253 |
existent in which level of intellectual culture high | 255 |
Logical justification What has to be shown is that the generic | 262 |
Suggestion from the side of religion that the reason appealed | 32 |
Reasons for beginning with human experience in its cognitive | 38 |
Analysis of the general judgment form The subject always | 51 |
LECTURE IV | 57 |
Partial truth and partial falsity of Realist doctrine that | 64 |
But remains true that all cognition being judgment has | 70 |
Notorious difficulties in conception of a being which has | 77 |
Fundamental question is whether the union of mind with | 80 |
800 | 90 |
Other aspects of mindbody problem which will not here | 103 |
Empirical manifestations of self as practical being still to | 109 |
Further observations on Structuretrace theory defence | 125 |
But what if there is anaesthesia as well as paralysis of limb? | 140 |
but with rare interruptions there is a general form of self | 146 |
A further form of creative selfactivity which must be distin | 153 |
Must clearly be a freedom that belongs to inner acts | 160 |
Have now to ask whether free will as defined is a reality | 167 |
8284 | 178 |
Return to traditional nonnaturalistic view that the moral | 200 |
Metaphysical implications of accepting the objective validity | 206 |
Conclusion that ordinary religious man obeys a sound instinct | 268 |
xvi | 271 |
A problem admittedly if as often alleged human nature | 275 |
The implication stressed that if man is so constituted that | 282 |
An easy solution in terms of a Finite God ruled out | 290 |
LECTURE XV | 307 |
Admitted that a world created by God must be notself | 314 |
Review of argument of present course to stage now reached | 321 |
The idea of the holy as including an overplus of meaning | 327 |
Ottos epistemology of the numinous the potentiality | 333 |
Meaning and basis of Ottos view that the schematisation | 341 |
Religion can and must embrace paradoxes but if | 347 |
Statement of and reply to objection that if we know only | 357 |
The appeal to religious experience subjective assurance | 363 |
Doubt e g whether the religious consciousness has | 369 |
appeal to one or more of the classical arguments for Gods | 378 |
Preliminary observations on the Law of Contradiction | 384 |
But can thought ever get its objects into a form in which | 392 |
LECTURE XX | 403 |
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