Samuel Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago)

Gebundenes Buch

The Good and the Good Book

Revelation as a Guide to Life

Beschreibung

Religions that center around a revelation-or a 'good book', which is seen as God's word-are widely regarded as irrational and dangerous, based on outdated science and conducive to illiberal, inhumane moral attitudes. Samuel Fleischacker offers a powerful defense of revealed religion, and reconciles it with science and liberal morality.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780198733072
• ISBN-10: 0198733070
• Artikelnr.: 47871275