Saints, Heretics, and Atheists: A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

Based on lectures from a popular course taught in the Program for General Education at Harvard University for over a decade, Saints, Heretics, and Atheists invites readers along for a journey that is unique in its sweeping historical approach to the philosophy of religion and the balance it strikes...

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Main Author: McDonough, Jeffrey K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2022
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B Religion-Philosophy-History
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520 |a Cover -- Saints, Heretics, and Atheists -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Plato's Euthyphro: What Is Piety? -- 1.1. The Setting -- 1.2. First Attempt: Examples of Piety -- 1.3. Second Attempt: What Is Dear to the Gods -- 1.4. Third Attempt: What All the Gods Love -- 1.5. Fourth Attempt: Piety Is the Part of Justice That Concerns the Gods -- 1.6. Fifth Attempt: The Pious Is What Is Dear to the Gods -- 2. Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will: Where Does Evil Come From? -- 2.1. The Setting -- 2.2. What Is the Cause of Evil? -- 2.3. The Well-​Ordered Person -- 2.4. Sin and Ignorance -- 2.5. An Objection and Two Conclusions -- 2.6. Freedom and Determinism -- 3. Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will: Why Do We Have Free Will? -- 3.1. Setup and Structure -- 3.2. How Is It Manifest That God Exists? -- 3.3. Do All Things, Insofar as They Are Good, Come from God? -- 3.4. Should Free Will Be Counted as a Good Thing That Comes from God? -- 3.5. Happiness and Immortality -- 4. Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will: Why Do We Sin? -- 4.1. Why Do We Sin, and Who Is to Blame? -- 4.2. Is Libertarian Freedom Consistent with Divine Foreknowledge? -- 4.3. Can't God Be Blamed for Creating Beings That He Knows Will Sin? -- 4.4. Is It the Case That Some of Us Must Sin? -- 4.5. Three Views on Divine Foreknowledge -- 5. Anselm's Proslogion: Does Reason Prove That God Exists? -- 5.1. The Setting -- 5.2. Anselm's Ontological Argument -- 5.3. A Perfect Island? -- 5.4. Two Objections -- 6. Ibn Sina's The Book of Salvation: What Is the Nature of the Soul? -- 6.1. The Setting -- 6.2. What Does the Intellect Do? -- 6.3. Is the Soul Immaterial? -- 6.4. Is the Soul Immortal? -- 6.5. What Am I? -- 7. Al-​Ghazali's The Rescuer from Error: Is Religious Belief Founded in Reason? -- 7.1. The Setting -- 7.2. Three Views on Faith and Reason. 
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