Pragmatic Humanism Revisited An Essay on Making the World a Home /

• Main Author: Honnacker, Ana (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism
• Subjects: Pragmatism.; Secularism.; Ethics.

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors like William James and F.C.S. Schiller, it high...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Approaching Pragmatic Humanism
• 3. Human Inquiry and the Authority of Science
• 4. Emancipatory Outlooks on Religion and Faith
• 5. Experimental Action and Inclusion: The Ethics of Pragmatic Humanism
• 6. Thinking About Last Things: Death, Finitude, and Meaning
• 7. Conclusion: Living on Uncertainties-Pragmatic Humanism as a Way of Life.