Reason, Experience, and God

by Colapietro, Vincent Michael; Smith, John Edwin

• ISBN13: 9780823217076
• ISBN10: 0823217078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr

Summary

John E. Smith has contributed to contemporary philosophy in primarily four distinct capacities; first, as a philosopher of religion and God; second, as an indefatigable defender of philosophical reflection in its classical sense ( a sense inclusive of, but not limited to, metaphysics); third, as a participant in the reconstruction of experience and reason so boldly inaugurated by Hegel then redically transformed by the classical American pragmatists, and significantly augmented by such thinkers as Josiah Royce, william Earnest Hocking, and Alfred North Whitehead; fourth, as an interpreter of philosophical texts and traditions (Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche no less than Charles Peirce, WIlliam James and John Dewey; German idealism as well as American; the Augustinian tradition no less than the pragmatic). Reason, Experience, and God provides an important and comprehensive look at the work of John E. Smith by collected essays which each address aspects of his life-long work. A response by John E. Smith himself draws a line of continuity between the pieces.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
John E. Smith and the Recovery of Religious Experience	p. 7
Notes	p. 17
Morality and Obligation	p. 19
Notes	p. 31
Notes	p. 61
John E. Smith and Metaphysics	p. 71
Notes	p. 80
Responses	p. 83
Experience and Its Religious Dimension: Response to Vincent G. Potter	p. 85
Notes	p. 102
Morality, Religion, and the Force of Obligation: Response to Robert J. Roth, S.J	p. 105
Notes	p. 116
Enlarging the Scope of Reason: Response to Vincent Colapietro	p. 117
Notes	p. 130
Metaphysics, Experience, Being, and God: Response to Robert C. Neville	p. 131
Publications of John E. Smith	p. 145
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