Science, Humanism, and Religion: The Quest for Orientation

By Matthias Jung

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Orientation as a life-function

- Science and religion - a new perspective

- Humans and other organisms: From the environment to the world

- Do we need an articulated relation to comprehensive reality?

- Immanuel Kant and the idea of orientation

- The incompleteness of objective reality and the primacy of meaning

- Linguistic animals: shared consciousness and the articulation of felt meaning

- The conceptual context: naturalism and humanism

2. Science vs. scientism: Is there such a thing as the scientific worldview?

- Science as a life-function

- The relative autonomy of science

- Unity and pluralism: the cognitive scope of science

- Science as a religion: what is bad about scientism

3. Varieties of naturalism and humanism

- Human values and naturalism

- The hidden agenda of modernity: Stephen Toulmin

- Middle-ground humanism

4. Rediscovering the importance of ordinary experience

- Holism

- Qualitative character

- Embodiment and transcendence

- Action-orientation

- Articulation and meaning

5. The unavoidability of worldviews

- Meaning in life and the emergence of worldviews

- Language is not (only) a tool: symbolic capacities as constitutive for worldviews

- The quest for sacredness

- Pluralism and contingency

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6. Worldviews and the limits of philosophy

- Reconsidering the role of philosophy

- Doing philosophy pragmatically

- Philosophy as internal criticism

- The limits of philosophy

7. Coda: Blocked roads and genuine options

- Beyond scientism and religious fundamentalism

- The secular state, worldview pluralism, and the problem of shared values

- The optional

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030214915
• ISBN13: 9783030214913
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"