| Being in Religion: A Journey in Ontology from Pragmatics Through Hermeneutics to Metaphysics Contributor(s): Eikrem, Asle (Author) |
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ISBN: 3161520521 ISBN-13: 9783161520525 Publisher: Mohr Siebeck OUR PRICE: $106.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Philosophy |
| LCCN: 2012536849 |
| Series: Religion in Philosophy and Theology |
| Physical Information: 253 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Asle Eikrem strives to develop a systematic philosophical understanding of the constitutive structures of religious discourses. Different philosophical traditions (phenomenology, hermeneutics, pragmatics, metaphysics or analytical philosophical thinking) have articulated these structures in their own distinctive ways. The author aims to show how insights from partly conflicting traditions can be coherently reconstructed within the framework of a comprehensive philosophical presentation. The central thesis guiding his work is inspired by the deep-metaphysics of German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel, and states that the relation between the pragmatic, semantic and ontological structures of religious discourses must be understood as internally necessary. They cannot be thought independently from each other. The pragmatic and semantic structures of religious discourses must be understood as substructures in a comprehensive ontological dimension (Being) that is characterized as practicable and expressible. |