The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy by Jef

Description: The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy by Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail.Stout traces the secularization of public discourse and its effect on the relation between theism and culture as well as the severance of morality from traditional moorings in favor of autonomy. He is unabashedly historical in his approach, defending the thesis that all thought is historically conditioned and that historical insight is essential to self-understanding.Each section of the book takes up a major problem in contemporary philosophy - the nature of knowledge, the rationality of religious belief, the autonomy of morality- and sets that problem against the background of early modern disputes over authority. The result is simultaneously a critique of ahistorical biases, a survey of major developments in modern thought, and a normative treatment of the problems addressed.The book culminates in the final section with an account of post-Kantian concern with the autonomy of morals. Morality attained relative independence as a form of discourse only in the modern period, but the nature of this independence is distorted when construed in foundationalist or Kantian terms. After criticizing methodological assumptions in recent moral philosophy and religious ethics, Stout sketches his own account of the emergence of autonomy for morality, stressing the need for substantial rethinking of the relationship between religion and ethics. In a concluding chapter, he places his own position in relation to the philosophical tradition descendant from Hegel. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Review Quote ...the first extended application of Rortyian insights and methods to subjects that interest those of us in religious studies: the secularization of discourse, religious epistemology, religious ethics, inter alia. Details ISBN0268009546 Author Jeffrey Stout Short Title FLIGHT FROM AUTHORITY Pages 307 Publisher University of Notre Dame Press Series Revisions Language English ISBN-10 0268009546 ISBN-13 9780268009540 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 170.42 Year 1981 Publication Date 1981-07-15 Subtitle Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy DOI 10.1604/9780268009540 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 1981-07-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161191443;

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