Rush Rhees on Religion and Philosophy
Rush Rhees on Religion and Philosophy
D. Z. Phillips, University of Wales, Swansea and Claremont Graduate School, California
Mario von der Ruhr, University of Wales, Swansea
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Rush Rhees (1905–1989) was a philosopher, and a pupil and close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein. While some of Rhees's own published papers became classics, most of his work remained unpublished during his lifetime. After his death, his papers were found to comprise sixteen thousand pages of manuscript on every aspect of philosophy, from philosophical logic to Simone Weil. This collection of unpublished papers, edited by D. Z. Phillips, includes Rhees's outstanding work on philosophy and religion. Written over an academic lifetime, some of the papers are sympathetic to religion while others are not. It is Rhees's ability to interweave the personal and philosophical, and his integrity and intellectual honesty, which make this one of the most impressive books in twentieth-century philosophy of religion.
- A collection of the unpublished papers by Rush Rhees on philosophy and religion
- Rush Rhees was a pupil and close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein, edited many of his works and was one of his literary executors
- Examines questions in the philosophy of religion from both religious and non-religious points of view
Product details
July 1997Hardback
9780521564106
411 pages
235 × 160 × 27 mm
0.711kg
Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Religion and Reality: 1. Religion and philosophy
- 2. Where does the world come from? 3. The ontological argument and proof
- 4. Remarks on reality and religion
- 5. Natural theology
- 6. Religion and language
- 7. Belief in God
- 8. Wittgenstein on language and ritual
- 9. Religious practices
- 10. Notes on religion and reductionism
- 11. 'The divide' between religion and 'scientific method'
- 12. Difficulties in belief
- Part II. Religion, Life, and Meaning:
- 13. Gratitude and ingratitude for existence
- 14. Religion, life and meaning: A and B
- 15. Death and immortality
- 16. Election and judgment
- 17. That man is made for heaven
- Part III. Religion and Morality:
- 18. Living with oneself
- 19. The sinner and sin
- 20. The Church and the moral law
- 21. Suffering
- 22. Picking and choosing
- Part IV. Reflection on Christianity:
- 23. Miracles
- 24. Mescaline, mysticism, and religious experience
- 25. Difficulties with Christianity
- 26. Christianity and growth of understanding
- Index of names
- Index of subjects.
