Coakley Faith, Rationality and the Passions

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-32168-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Directions in Modern Theology

Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh andoriginal examination of the relation of religious faith,philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions seeleading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religiousEnlightenment forced passion and reason apart.
* Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on therelation of faith, reason and the passions in classic andEnlightenment figures
* Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenmentwas responsible for creating a gulf between reason andpassion
* Presents original and innovative research on the importance ofthe late-19th century creation of the category of'emotion', and its striking difference from classicideas of passion
* Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion withphilosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotionand reason

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coakley, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Faith, Rationality, and the Passions 1
SARAH COAKLEY
1 Reason, Faith, and Meaning 13
CHARLES TAYLOR
2 The Invention of Fanaticism 29
WILLIAM T. CAVANAUGH
3 The Late Arrival of Language: Word, Nature, and the Divine inPlato's Cratylus 41
CATHERINE PICKSTOCK
4 Evagrius Ponticus and the Eastern Monastic Tradition on theIntellect and the Passions 67
COLUMBA STEWART, O.S.B.
5 Tears and Weeping: An Augustinian View 81
PAUL J. GRIFFITHS
6 The Non-Aristotelian Character of Aquinas's Ethics:Aquinas on the Passions 91
ELEONORE STUMP
7 Skeptical Detachment or Loving Submission to the Good? Reason,Faith, and the Passions in Descartes 107
JOHN COTTINGHAM
8 Hume Versus Kant: Faith, Reason, and Feeling 117
JOHN MILBANK
9 Kant, the Passions, and the Structure of Moral Motivation139
JOHN HARE
10 "The Monstrous Centaur"? Joseph De Maistre onReason, Passion, and Violence 157
DOUGLAS HEDLEY
11 Kierkegaard on Faith, Reason, and Passion 169
MEROLD WESTPHAL
12 Revolting Passions 181
THOMAS DIXON
13 Wittgenstein on Faith, Rationality, and the Passions197
STEPHEN MULHALL
14 Psychology and the Rationality of Emotion 209
GERALD L. CLORE
15 The Neuroscience of Emotion and Reasoning in Social Contexts:Implications for Moral Theology 223
MICHAEL L. SPEZIO
16 Intellectual Emotions and Religious Emotions 241
PETER GOLDIE
Postscript: What (if Anything) can the Sciences Tell Philosophyand Theology about Faith, Rationality, and the Passions? 251
SARAH COAKLEY
Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at theUniversity of Cambridge, and was previously Mallinckrodt Professorof Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. She is a systematictheologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinaryinterests. Her previous publications include Powers andSubmissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002), Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa(editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Pain and Its Transformations:The Interface of Biology and Culture (co-edited with KayShelemay, 2007) and Re-Thinking Dinoysius the Areopagite(co-edited, with Charles Stang, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).