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Ana Honnacker
Pragmatic Humanism Revisited [PDF ebook]
An Essay on Making the World a Home

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How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties? This book offers a humanist re-reading of philosophical pragmatism and explores its potentials for a worldview that relies only on human resources. Thinking along with authors like William James and F.C.S. Schiller, it highlights a fundamentally humanist strand of pragmatism aimed at fostering human creativity and transformative action. It is grounded in everyday experience and underlines our respon...

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Table of Content

1. Introduction.- 2. Approaching Pragmatic Humanism.- 3. Human Inquiry and the Authority of Science.- 4. Emancipatory Outlooks on Religion and Faith.- 5...

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Ana Honnacker is Assistant Professor at the Hanover Institute for Philosophical Research, Germany.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 106 ● ISBN 9783030024413 ● File size 1.3 MB ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2018 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6725232 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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