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| Titre : | A Christian View of Men and Things |
| Auteurs : | Gordon H. Clark, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Grand Rapids [USA] : William B. Eerdmans, 1952 |
| Format : | 325 p. |
| Note générale : | The Payton Lectures delivered in condensed form at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena 1951 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
In this new book, Gordon H. Clark, Professor of Philosophy, Butler University, has written one of the “prime (philosophical) works to appear from the side of conservative Christianity in recent decades.” He has pursued his underlying theme begun in his earlier book, A Christian Philosophy of Education, that social stability demands a Christian culture.
Professor Clark contrasts the coherency of the Hebrew-Christian world and life view with that of the non- Christian philosophies. His method of defense is a comprehensive apologia, comparing the degree of self-consistency of the divergent philosophies in the fields of history, politics, science, religion and epistemology. A Christian View of Men and Things is an introduction to such a proving ground of contending systems of knowledge and truth. The author shows how some elements and implications of Christian theism are available in the several fields of knowledge. When these are added to and arranged, he says, we have some prospect of what a theistic world view would be. From the mass of naturalistic literature he clarifies the implications of the non-Christian philosophies with their chaotic and disconnected centers of knowledge, and contrasts these with the world-ordered view of theism. Defenders of a theism of systematic proportions have a brilliant exponent in Professor Clark, and students of philosophy and religion will find his new book a stimulating introduction. |
| Note de contenu : |
- I. INTRODUCTION : The Purpose and Limits of This Book / The Questions of Philosophy / The Unity of Truth / Method: The Law of Contradiction / Method : Choice - II. THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Karl Marx / The Philosophy of Progress / Spengler and Toynbee / An Appraisal / The Significance of History / A Christian Philosophy of History - III. THE PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS: Normative versus Descriptive Politics / The Function of Government / Analysis and Criticism / Justification of Coercion / The Consent of the Governed / A Theistic View - IV. ETHICS : Classification of Sciences / The Questions of Ethics / Teleological Ethics / Egoism / Utilitarianism / Ateleological Ethics / Kant / The Ethics of Revelation - V. SCIENCE : Science and Knowledge / Facts, Laws, and Verification / Formation of Concepts / Mechanical Model / Physics, History, and Ethics / Conclusion - VI. RELIGION : Method / Value / Is God Essential to Religion? / Can God Be Known? / What is God? / Good and Evil / Absolute Theism / A Finite God - VII. EPISTEMOLOGY : Skepticism / Relativism / Empiricism / Apriorism / The Theistic World / Conclusion |
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