1st Edition

The Modern Predicament A Study in the Philosophy of Religion

By H.J. Paton Copyright 2003
    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume IX in a series of twelve on Ethics. Originally published in 1955, this is a collection of works the philosophy of religion that four Forwood Lectures on the philosophy of religion, which were delivered in the University of Liverpool in 1949. It developed into two series of Gifford Lectures given in the University of St. Andrews in the years 1950 and 1951.

    Muirhead Library of Philosophy; Preface; Chapter I Philosophy and Religion; Chapter II The Linguistic Veto; Chapter III The Theological Veto; Chapter IV Religion; Chapter V Religious Aberration; Chapter VI The Way of Negation; Chapter VII Intellectual Impediments; Chapter VIII Responses; Chapter IX The Way of Experience; Chapter X The Mystic Way; Chapter XI I and Thou; Chapter XII The Argument from Perfection; Chapter XIII The Argument from Imperfection; Chapter XIV The World and its Design; Chapter XV The Appeal to History; Chapter XVI The Philosophers' World; Chapter XVII Man and His Experience; Chapter XVIII The Limits of Knowledge; Chapter XIX The Good Man; Chapter XX Science and Ethics; Chapter XXI Morality and Religion; Chapter XXII Grace; Chapter XXIII The World and God; Chapter XXIV Man and God; Chapter XXV The Modern Predicament;

    Biography

    H. J. Paton Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford Fellow of the British Academy