The Vision of Gabriel Marcel: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent

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Rodopi, 2008 - 187 strán (strany)
This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel's unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent, but also for epistemological issues, concerning the objectivity of knowledge, the problem of skepticism, and the nature of non-conceptual knowledge, among others. There are also chapters of dialogue with philosophers, Jacques Maritain and Martin Buber. In focusing on these themes, the book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on Marcel.Brendan Sweetman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, USA. His books include Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006) and Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2007). He has coauthored or coedited several other books, including Truth and Religious Belief (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), and Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1992). Professor Sweetman has published more than fifty articles and reviews in a variety of collections and journals, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, and Review of Metaphysics. He writes regularly in the areas of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics.

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INTRODUCTION
1
One MARCELS CRITIQUE OF CARTESIANISM
7
Two HUMAN BEING AS A BEINGINASITUATION
23
Three THE OBJECTIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE
39
Four SECONDARY REFLECTION ETHICS AND THE TRANSCENDENT
53
Five RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE AFFIRMATION OF GOD
69
Six A MARCELIAN CRITIQUE OF THE PROBLEM OF SKEPTICISM
87
Seven MARCEL AND TRADITIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS
103
MARCEL AND MARITAIN
121
BUBER AND MARCEL
135
NOTES
153
BIBLIOGRAPHY
167
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
181
INDEX
183
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Strana 97 - The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges.
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Brendan Sweetman, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is Professor of Philosophy at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, USA. His books include Why Politics Needs Religion: The Place of Religious Arguments in the Public Square (InterVarsity, 2006) and Religion: Key Concepts in Philosophy (Continuum Books, 2007). He has co-authored or co-edited several other books, including Truth and Religious Belief (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), and Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 1992). Professor Sweetman has published more than fifty articles and reviews in a variety of collections and journals, including International Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, and Review of Metaphysics. He writes regularly in the areas of continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics.

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