Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism

ISBN-13: 9780367878900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Andrew Fiala

Opis

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism, including the emergence of nonreligion, and defends the norms of secular cosmopolitanism that allow pluralism to thrive. Fiala argues that the presence of religious diversity, including nonbelief, pushes us toward secularism and vice versa.

Recenzje

"In the wake of growing secularism alongside increasing fundamentalism, Dr. Fiala offers a sound, reasoned, thoughtful—and above all, ethical—vision of how we can live in a more tolerant, hospitable world." —Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, USA

Spis treści

1. Introduction: From Civility to Hospitality

PART I: The Logic of Diversity And a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion

2. One, None, Many: The Logic of Religion

3. The Golden Rule of Hospitality, Agnosticism, and the Pluralistic Wager

4. Naïve Religion and Philosophical Critique

5. Should an Atheist Take Communion? Good Will, Kindness, Testimony, and Truth

6. Pragmatic and Poly-Theistic Philosophy of Religion

PART II: Explorations in the Depth of Diversity

7. Toward a Secular Cosmopolitan Soteriology

8. Love, Liberty, and The Good Samaritan

9. Human Rights, Theocentrism, and Religious Diversity

10. Militant Atheism, Pragmatism, and the God-Shaped Hole

PART III: Hospitality and A Secular Cosmopolitan Ethic

11. Hospitality, Civil Dialogue, and Cosmopolitanism
12. Solidarity, Play, and the Pluralistic Wager

13. Ethics for a Secular Cosmopolitan World

O autorze

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015), and the 8th edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with Barbara MacKinnon (2014). Fiala also writes a weekly column for the Fresno Bee.