The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom : A Semiotic Reinterpretation of the Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century (Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy and Religion)

Redpath, Peter A. (EDT)/ Chłodna-Błach, Imelda (EDT)/ Mamcarz-Plisiecki, Artur (EDT)

Brill（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 308 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004468009
• DDC分類 201.723

Full Description

This volume tests a hypothesis—philosophy and science are identical forms of behavioristic, organizational psychology: a psychological habit of wondering about causes of organizational existence, formation, and behaviour. Focusing attention on two universal and culturally influential great ideas—freedom and religion—this volume's array of international scholars demonstrate that leading ancient and medieval philosophers did philosophy in this way. Also, well-known philosophers/scientists like Mortimer J. Adler and John N. Deely practiced philosophy this way. Doing so is precisely what made these philosophers uniquely capable of generating great ideas as motivational principles that dramatically alter cultures. In a nutshell, this work offers significant support for its historically and philosophically ground-breaking thesis.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Editors and Contributors

Introduction

  Peter A. Redpath

1 Reflections on Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings about the Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

  Piotr Jaroszyński

2 Free and Religious Actions as Semiotic Effects of the Great Ideas

  Maria Joanna Gondek

3 How Commonsense Philosophical Realism Influenced Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings

  Joanna Kiereś-Łach

4 Becoming a Masterpiece of Unbending Will

  Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki

5 Karol Wojtyła on Semiotically Expressing the Great Ideas of the True and the Good

  Arkadiusz Gudaniec

6 How the Great Ideas Can Help Resolve the Contemporary Decline of the West

  Wojciech Daszkiewicz

7 Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas

  Katarzyna Stępień

8 Czesław Martyniak: The Great Ideas as Motivational Causes

  Rafał Charzyński

9 The Great Ideas: Causes of Human Transcendence or Enslavement?

  Tomasz Duma

10 Christianity: Friend or Foe of the Great Ideas?

  Robert T. Ptaszek

11 Semiotics of Organizational Leadership and Gateway Leadership Induction Technology (GATELIT)

  Marvin B. Daniel Peláez

12 Greatness of Character in Classical Confucianism

  Jason Morgan

13 The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation

  Adam L. Barborich

14 Mortimer J. Adler

 From Annoying Philosophical Bastard to Great Educational Reformer

  Imelda Chłodna-Błach

 Conclusion.

 "Leisure Is the Basis of Culture": Was Josef Pieper Wrong?

  Peter A. Redpath

Index