| 书目名称 | The Paradoxes of Modernity | | 副标题 | Creating Belief thro | | 编辑 | Zachary Simpson | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers an interdisciplinary examination of a paradox that lies at the heart of modernity.Serves as both an essay in the history of Western thought as well as a constructive argument.Asks and answers m | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | A paradox lies at the heart of modernity: the simultaneous demand to create ideas to make us better humans and communities, along with the contrary imperative that we criticize all ideals, especially the ones we have created. In philosophy we see this paradox most acutely in figures like Immanuel Kant, who states that we cannot know the essence of things and yet we must retain old ideas – God, freedom, and the soul – in order to become better and more ethical humans. Or in Friedrich Nietzsche, whose eternal recurrence, a self-created myth whose sole purpose is to get us to see the value in the everyday. This basic scheme – belief and un-belief – is one of the fundamental elements of modernity, manifesting itself in the philosophies of Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault, along with the theologies of Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, William James, Sallie McFague, and Philip Clayton..How do we live out the values we know to be constructions? This question holds captiveour ability to solve public goods problems and make our lives more meaningful. Instead of seeing this paradox of modernity as self-deception or bad faith, Zachary Simpson employs cognitive and social scientific research to ex | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | Herbert Marcuse; Michel Foucault; Blaise Pascal; C; S; Lewis; Sallie McFague; Philip Clayton; William James | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99056-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-99058-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-99056-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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