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Author Masterson, Patrick, author.

Title In reasonable hope : philosophical reflections on ultimate meaning / Patrick Masterson.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Correlationist humanism -- Scientism and scientific naturalism -- Philosophical theism and religious belief -- Phenomenology and linguistic philosophy of religion -- Anthropocentric theism : for and against -- Theism and metaphysics -- "Only by love" : another approach -- Toward a theology of love -- Emergence -- Emergence of human love -- Love as agape -- Implications of love -- Love and faith -- Our natural love of God -- God's love for us -- Our graced love of God -- Love of neighbor -- Concluding reflection.
Summary "In Reasonable Hope considers three foundational responses to this quest for some understanding of the existence, meaning, and value of everything. Other approaches can be considered as combinations or variations of these. Firstly, there is the approach which claims that it is our humanity, exercising its unique intelligent subjectivity, that is the source and measure of all possible meaning and value. Nothing can be thought of as existing, meaningful or of value apart from a thinking human subject. This is a broadly Humanist approach to ultimate meaning. Man is the measure of all things. Secondly, there is the approach of Scientism. This claims that an ultimate understanding of the world and ourselves must be sought, less anthropocentrically, in terms of the findings of basic empirical sciences such as physics and chemistry. We live in a world ever-increasingly dominated by the autonomous system of science and technology. Such Scientism implies an explicitly reductionist and materialist conception of the meaning and value of everything. Thirdly, there is the approach of Theism which maintains that, in the final analysis, the meaning and value of everything, insofar as this can be known, is to be explained in terms of a transcendent infinitely perfect personal being we call God."-- Provided by publisher.
Biography Patrick Masterson is emeritus President and professor of philosophy at University College Dublin.
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Subject Meaning (Philosophy)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Humanism.
Humanism.
Scientism.
Theism.
Scientism.
Theism.
humanism.
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Added Title Philosophical reflections on ultimate meaning
Other Form: Print version: Masterson, Patrick. In reasonable hope. Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2021] 9780813233864 (DLC) 2020057635 (OCoLC)1229148604
ISBN 9780813233871 (ebook)
0813233879 (ebook)
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