The Modern Predicament: A Study in the Philosophy of Religion, Volumen9Psychology Press, 2002 - 405 páginas This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
Contenido
PREFACE | 19 |
THE ARGUMENT FROM page | 20 |
THE LINGUISTIC VETO | 27 |
Ordinary language | 34 |
Theological statements | 42 |
RELIGION | 59 |
Aberrations and obsessions | 73 |
THE WAY OF NEGATION | 87 |
The philosophical background | 178 |
The concept of perfection | 180 |
Existence | 182 |
The inference from perfection to existence | 184 |
Existence is not a quality | 186 |
Theoretical argument and religious conviction | 188 |
The cosmological argument | 190 |
The five ways of St Thomas | 192 |
INTELLECTUAL IMPEDIMENTS | 103 |
RESPONSES | 116 |
The way of allegory | 122 |
THE WAY OF EXPERIENCE page 1 Religious experience | 129 |
The Idea of the Holy | 130 |
The rational and the nonrational | 131 |
Mysterium tremendum | 132 |
The faculty of divination | 135 |
Otto and Kant | 137 |
The numinous and the holy | 139 |
The appraisal of religious value | 141 |
The apprehension of Gods existence | 142 |
Religion and philosophy | 144 |
THE MYSTIC WAY 1 The claims of mysticism | 146 |
Ordinary prayer | 148 |
The mystic way | 149 |
Ecstasy and the spiritual marriage | 150 |
The element of suffering | 152 |
The element of negation | 153 |
The difficulties of criticism | 154 |
The question of validity | 156 |
The voice of poetry | 160 |
AND THOU 1 Experience and encounter | 162 |
IThou and IIt | 163 |
The world of living relation | 164 |
Some difficulties | 166 |
The absolute relation | 167 |
The way to the encounter | 169 |
The mark of revelation | 170 |
The God of reflexion | 171 |
THE ARGUMENT FROM PERFECTION 1 Religious thinking | 174 |
Arguments for the existence of God | 175 |
The ontological argument | 176 |
The conditioned | 193 |
The unconditioned | 195 |
Time and the conditioned | 196 |
Necessary being | 198 |
Metaphysics | 200 |
Metaphysics and religion | 203 |
THE WORLD AND ITS DESIGN 1 The common world | 205 |
The great and small | 206 |
Energy | 207 |
Law | 208 |
Nature and law | 210 |
Nature and design | 212 |
Nature and beauty | 215 |
Religious experience | 218 |
THE APPEAL TO HISTORY 1 The appeal to history | 222 |
The question of fact | 225 |
The historical Jesus | 227 |
The question of value | 229 |
The theological interpretation | 232 |
History and faith | 236 |
THE PHILOSOPHERS WORLD 1 Science and common sense | 239 |
Materialism | 241 |
Phenomenalism | 243 |
Platonism | 246 |
Philosophy and religion | 250 |
MAN AND HIS EXPERIENCE 1 The man who knows | 253 |
Experience | 255 |
My point of view | 258 |
Other points of view | 262 |
The common world | 263 |
Phenomenalism and materialism | 265 |
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