ISBN:
9783030950620
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(VII, 252 p. 2 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life 10
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Faith, hope, and love
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Religion—Philosophy.
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Theology.
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Christentum
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Christian theology
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PHILOSOPHY / Religious
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Philosophy of religion
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RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
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Religionsphilosophie
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Theologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Tugend
;
Theologie
;
Religionsphilosophie
;
Religionsvergleich
Abstract:
1. Introduction: Virtue and Vice -- I: Faith and Doubt -- 2. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues -- 3. Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Krsna’s Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita -- 4. Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment -- 5. Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty -- 6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Scholar, Mentor, and Humanist -- II: Hope and Despair -- 7. Dante’s Commedia: from Despair to Hope to Glory -- 8. Radical Hope, Despair and Time: Responses to Nietzsche -- 9. Hope but not Optimism: The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things -- III: Love and Hate -- 10. How to ‘Love Thy Neighbor’: Lessons from G.W.F. Hegel on Conflict and Reconciliation -- 11. Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas and Iris Murdoch on Moral Formation -- 12. Empathy and its Critics -- 13. What Muslim Scholars Talk About When They Talk About Love -- 14. Bhakti and Accidental Grace: Hate as Love in the Hindu Tradition -- 15. Obedience and Love in Christian Ethics -- 16. The Happiness of Promise: Ferdinand Holler and Alexander Nehamas on Love and Care.
Abstract:
These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves. And while these virtues make up a core part of Christian tradition, the essays here go far and wide in search of different cultural conceptions of these universal human concerns. Inquiries are made into these virtues in Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic thought, alongside philosophers including Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, and Murdoch. The resulting tapestry is often beautiful, sometimes horrific, but always thoroughly human. Chapter [9] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-95062-0
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