Secularization An Essay in Normative Metaphysics / by Ulrich Steinvorth.

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using ideas of Max Weber, the book conceives secularization as a process comparable to the rational developme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steinvorth, Ulrich (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:	1st ed. 2017.
Series:	Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:	Social sciences—Philosophy. Religion—Philosophy. Ethics. Metaphysics. Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:	Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:	Loaded electronically. Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. - Chapter 1: Three theses. - Chapter 2: Similar views
PART 1: A NEW SECULARIZATION THESIS
Chapter 3: Intrinsic goals and sphere-immanent rationalities
Chapter 4: Religion and the absolute
Chapter 5: Authenticity, morality, and the post-Enlightenment absolute
Chapter 6: Authenticity in ancient China and Rome
Chapter 7: Montaigne’s authenticity
Chapter 8: Mortality and Montaignean authenticity
Chapter 9: A naturalistic proof of the validity of the authenticity command
Chapter 10: Three comments on the naturalistic proof
Chapter 11: The thesis. PART 2: OBJECTIONS
Chapter 12: Religion cannot be perfected, least of all by authenticity
Chapter 13: Claims on the absolute must be infallible
Chapter 14: Hegel’s red herring
Chapter 15: Rational metaphysics cannot relate to the absolute
Chapter 16 Secular societies can do without anything absolute
Chapter 17: Secularization is a unique Western development
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.

Secularization An Essay in Normative Metaphysics / by Ulrich Steinvorth.

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