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Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
453

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Table of Contents

Philosophical psychology
The psychology of truth
Style
The philosopher's dilemma
The philosophic flight
A series of etchings
Hegel and Nietzsche
Why most philosophers cannot laugh
What long aphorisms can mean
Relativity and criticism
Two revolts
Analytic philosophy
Existentialism
Two timeless tendencies
Empiricism as empiricide
Plato's vision of man
The British vision of man
Donnish doubt
Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein and Socrates
Followers
Truth; true and false
The aspiration for truth
Truth and correctness
Truth and meaning, or: how to read a philosopher
Theories of truth
Words and experience
Language and emotion
"Love"
Words as categories
Works of art as categories
Common sense
Definitions of religion
Religion at the bar
"Subjective" truth
Knowledge, belief, and faith
Faith, evidence, and James
Three types of religious propositions
Recourse to revelation or miracles
Faith and its causes: contra James
Seven causes
Freud and wishful thinking
Godless religions
Plato's proof that gods exist
St. Thomas Aquinas
Perfection and the ontological argument
Kant's postulate
Can one prove God's existence?
Pascal's wager
God and ambiguity
The ambiguity of dogma
Analogy
Symbols: contra Tillich
Demythologizing and valuations
Contra Bultmann
Gerrymandering
Theology
Dialogue between Satan and a theologian
Dialogue between Satan and a Christian
Dialogue between Satan and an atheist
Religion and truth
Buddhism and truth
Zen Buddhism and truth
Judaism and truth
Jewish and Christian faith
Infidel piety
Liberal Protestantism and truth
Reinhold Niebuhr and truth
A Platonic error, reason, and Christianity
Christianity and truth
Claims for mysticism
Ineffability
Mysticism as a historical phenomenon
Criteria of mystical experience
The experience of inspiration
Mysticism, inspiration, and religion
Contra Fromm: religion and tragedy
Religion and loyalty
Thomist versus non-Thomist
Loyalty and truth
Religion, aspiration, and the holy
Otherworldliness
Religion and poetry
Inexhaustibility
The psychology of interpretation
Explanation
Inconsistencies
Quellenscheidung
The two Mosaic theories
Religion and progress
The Gospels and poetry
A Buddhist text
Against eclecticism
Plato as educator
The uncloistered virtue
Kant and Freud
Freud and aspiration
Man's ontological interest
Reason and aspiration
Epitaph.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-446) and index.

Published in
Garden City, N.Y
Series
Anchor Books -- A252, Anchor Books -- A252.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
201
Library of Congress
BL48 .K38 1961

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 453 pages
Number of pages
453

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28394119M
Internet Archive
critiqueofreligi0000kauf_i5l1
OCLC/WorldCat
9913179

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