Science, Humanism, and Religion
The Quest for Orientation
Springer International Publishing
ISBN 978-3-030-21492-0
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2019
VIII, 230 p. 1 illus..
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 230 S.
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-030-21492-0
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Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Progress in Mathematics Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with reality in which all these cultural activities are rooted.
Human beings have to relate themselves to the entirety of their lives to achieve orientation. This relation involves a non-methodical, meaningful experience that exhibits the crucial features for understanding worldviews: it comprises cognition, volition, and emotion, is embodied, action-oriented, and expressive. From this starting-point, religious and secular worldviews articulate what is experienced as ultimately meaningful. Yet the plurality and one-sidedness of these life stances necessitates critical engagement for which philosophy provides indispensable means. In the end, some worldviews can be ruled out, but we are still left with a plurality of genuine options for orientation.
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