Beyond Humanism
Author | : Charles Hartshorne |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781725239173 |
ISBN-13 | : 1725239175 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In the three decades since it was first published, Charles Hartshorne's Beyond Humanism has come to be regarded as a classic in the study of humanism and nature. The volume includes: Part One: HUMANISM AND HUMAN NEEDS -God or Nature -Humanism as Disintegration -Dewey's Philosophy of Religion -Other Humanist Philosophies -Russia and Marxian Humanism -Freud's View of Religion -Historic Forms of Humanism Part Two: NATURE -The Cosmic Variables -Order in a Creative Universe -Indeterminism in Psychology and Ethics -Mind and Matter -Mind and Body: Organic Sympathy -Russell on Causality -Santayana on Matter -Mead and Alexander on Time -Logical Positivism and the Method of Philosophy -Croce, Heidegger, and Hartmann -Conclusion: The Historic Role of Humanism