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Humanism and Embodiment: From Cause and Effect to Secularism

Autor Susan E. Babbitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 2015
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 Embodimentinsists 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474269216
ISBN-10: 1474269214
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Identifies the practical and political implications of embodiment, addressing the challenge to liberalism

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Humanism and embodiment: Three sources2. Humanism and global development ethics3. Alienation and authenticity4. Mystics, anti-imperialists and fear of contingency5. Secularism, ethics, philosophy: Against philosophical liberalismEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Susan Babbitt takes a fresh and enlightened view at the inescapable fact that we are bodies that think and not minds in bodies. She ventures beyond too-familiar philosophical routines to give us new perspectives on embodiment, humanism, religion, and notably on quietness. A most stimulating, even inspiring book.
Susan Babbitt, always challenging and original, is never more so than in her current exploration of humanism and embodiment in which she provocatively links Buddhism, Marxism, and Christianity with contemporary scientific realism. She argues cogently that the enemy of the humanism that is presupposed in liberation struggles is not religion but disembodied liberalism. This wide-ranging work will transform the debate on the limits and potential of self-knowledge needed for human liberation.