1st Edition
The Possibility of Discussion Relativism, Truth and Criticism of Religious Beliefs
By Hugo Strandberg
Copyright 2006
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Answering the question 'How is fruitful discussion possible?', this book addresses the central philosophical issue of how reason shall be understood and how it is limited. This study argues that the understanding of discussion according to which it necessarily starts from putative universal norms and rules for argumentation is problematic, among other reasons since such rules are unfruitful in... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The unfruitfulness of rationalistic discussion of religious beliefs; Religious belief and the diverse ways we deal with the world around us; Problems of relativism; The demand for universality; The objectivity of truth; How is fruitful discussion possible?; Wittgenstein, conservatism, and fideism; Philosophy of religion and enlightenment thinking; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Hugo Strandberg is based in the Department of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.
