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Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction (Chap. 15 "Social Philosophy")
by S. Morris Eames. 223 pgs.

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Pragmatic Naturalism: An Introduction

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Preface

Introduction

Part I Nature and Human Life

I. the Influence of Darwin

2. Accommodation, Adaptation, Adjustment

3. Emergence and Non-Reductionism

4. the Fullness of Experience

5. Immediacy, Transaction, and Continuity

6. a Pluralistic Universe

7. Human Life in Nature

Part 2 Knowledge

8. the Importance of Method

9. Signs, Symbols, and Meanings

10. Antecedents and Consequences

Ii. Logical Theory

12. Theory of Truth

Part 3 Value

13. General Theory of Value

14. Moral Philosophy

15. Social Philosophy

16. Philosophy of Art

17. Religion and the Religious

Part 4 Education

18. Societies and Their Schools

19. Ideals and Goals of Education

20. the Educative Process

Notes

Index
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Naturalism without Foundations (Part Two "Social Philosophy within the Limits of Reflective Equilibrium Alone")
by Kai Nielsen. 614 pgs.

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Naturalism Without Foundations is informal, lively, and widely accessible throughout, yet at the same time it considers in depth and carefully a cluster of issues central to contemporary philosophical and social scientific investigation while utilizing methods and conceptualizations at the very cutting edge of philosophical investigation.
"... a complex and extremely well-argued work..". -- Library Journal

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Preface

Notes

Part One Laying the Nonfoundations

Chapter One Nonscientistic Historicized Naturalism

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Chapter Two a Naturalistic Method

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Chapter Three How Reasonable is Religious Belief?: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Religion

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Chapter Four Can Religious Beliefs Be Both Groundless and Reasonable?: the Basic Belief Apologetic

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Part Two Social Philosophy Within the Limits of Reflective Equilibrium Alone

Introduction

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Chapter Five How to Proceed in Social Philosophy: Contextualist Justice and Wide Reflective Equilibrium

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Chapter Six Justice as a Kind of Impartiality

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Chapter Seven Rights and Consequences: It All Depends

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Chapter Eight on Eschewing Considered Judgments

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Chapter Nine There is No Dilemma of Dirty Hands

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Part Three Critical Social Theory and the Fixation of Belief

Introduction

Chapter Ten Pragmatism and the Challenge of Postmodernism

Chapter Eleven Legitimation in Complex Societies: Some Habermasian Themes

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Chapter Twelve Habermas and Foucault: How to Carry Out the Enlightenment Project

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Chapter Thirteen Skeptical Remarks on the Scope of Philosophy: Rorty Versus Habermas

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Appendix Perspectivism and the Absolute Conception of the World (apropos Note 67)

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Part Four Toward a Nonscientistic Atheism

Introduction

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Chapter Fourteen Perceiving God

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Chapter Fifteen is Religion the Opium of the People?: Marxianism and Religion

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Chapter Sixteen Atheism Without Anger or Tears

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Chapter Seventeen Morality and Making Sense of Life: with God and Without

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Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy
by John Rundell, Danielle Petherbridge, Jan Bryant, John Hewitt, Jeremy Smith. 422 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Issues and Debates in Contemporary Social and Critical Philosophy

Chapter 2: The Key Role of Selbstgefühl in Philosophy's Aesthetic and Historical Turns

Chapter 3: Fragments of a History of the Theory of Self-Consciousness from Kant to Kierkegaard

Chapter 4: Manfred Frank, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-Luc Nancy

Chapter 5: Schleiermacher and Post-Metaphysical Thinking

Chapter 6: The Presence of Tragedy

Chapter 7: Natural History

Chapter 8: Adorno's Contemplative Ethics

Chapter 9: Recognitive Freedom

Chapter 10: Deranty Injustice, Violence and Social Struggle the Critical Potential of Honneth's Theory of Recognition

Chapter 11: From Reason to Self-Realisation? Axel Honneth and the 'Ethical Turn' in Critical Theory

Chapter 12: The Paradoxes of the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe

Chapter 13: In Search of a Home

Chapter 14: The Unmasking of the Metaphysicians or the Deconstructing of Metaphysics?
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The Individual and the Social Order: An Introduction to Ethics and Social Philosophy (1926)
by Joseph A. Leighton. 586 pgs.

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Preface

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Part I The Rise of the Problems of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Chapter I The Scope of Ethics and Social Philosophy

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Chapter II Customary Morality

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Chapter III Institutions: The Conservative and the Radical

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Chapter IV The Chief Problems of Ethics

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Part II Landmarks in the History of Western Ethics

General References for Part II

Introductory

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Chapter V The Rise of Ethical Reflection--Socrates and Plato

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Chapter VI Aristotle

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Chapter VII Stoicism, Epicureanism and Neo-Platonism

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Chapter VIII Beginnings of Christian Ethics

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Chapter IX The Ethics of the Early Church

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Chapter X The Ethics of Scholasticism

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Chapter XI The Spirit of Modern Ethics

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Chapter XII Ethical Theories of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

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Chapter XIII Spinoza's Ethics

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Chapter XIV Utilitarianism

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Chapter XV The Ethics of German Idealism

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Chapter XVI Idealism in the Nineteenth Century English Literature

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Chapter XVII Biological Ethlcs

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Chapter XVIII Emerson, Whitman and James

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Chapter XIX The Ethical Outlook

Part Iii The Psychological Bases of Ethics

Chapter XX Man"S Prime Movers

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Chapter XXI New Light on the Individual

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Chapter XXII The Organization of the Individual

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Chapter XXIII Conscience

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Chapter XXIV The Ethlcal Meaning of Freedom

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Part IV Ethical Principles

Chapter XXV Rationalism

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Chapter XXVI Hedonism and Utilitarianism

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Chapter XXVII Self-Realization or Energism

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Chapter XXVIII Social Humanism

Chapter XXIX Virtue and Character

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Chapter XXX The Supreme Values

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Chapter XXXI Why Should One Be Good?

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Part V Applied Ethics or Social Philosophy

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Chapter XXXII The Individual and the Community

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Chapter XXXIII Criteria and Conditions of Progress

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Chapter XXXIV Justice

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Chapter XXXV The Problem of Political Authority

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Chapter XXXVI The Functions of the State

Chapter XXXVII Man and the Machine

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Chapter XXXVIII The Ethics of Economic Distribution

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Chapter XXXIX Collectivism or Socialism

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Chapter XL Towards Coöperative Individualism

Chapter XLI What is Democracy?

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Chapter XLII Is Democracy a Failure?

Chapter XLIII The Limitations of Democracy

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Chapter XLIV Machine Civilization and Spiritual Excellence

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Chapter XLV Social Principles in Education

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Chapter XLVI The World Community and Education

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Chapter XLVII Religion and the Community

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General Works on Ethics

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Society, Law, and Morality: Readings in Social Philosophy from Classical and Contemporary Sources (1961)
by Frederick A. Olafson. 518 pgs.

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Preface

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General Introduction

I: Natural Law And Natural Rights

Cicero: 106-43 B.C

St. Thomas Aquinas: 1225-1274

Thomas Hobbes: 1588-1679

John Locke: 1632-1704

Immanuel Kant: 1724-1804

H. L. A. Hart: 1907-

II: The Organic Theory of the State And Historicism

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770-1831

Friedrich Engels: 1820-1895

Thomas Hill Green: 1836-1882

Karl Popper: 1902-

III: Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham: 1748-1832

John Stuart Mill: 1806-1873

John Austin: 1790-1859

John B. Rawls: 1921-

IV: Law and Morality

Lon L. Fuller: 1902-

Suggested Readings

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Essays in Sociology and Social Philosophy, Vol. 2 (1960)
by Morris Ginsberg. 328 pgs.

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Preface

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Part One

Part One

References

Suggestions for General Reading

Chapter Two: The Contribution of Professor Hobhouse to Philosophy and Sociology1

Chapter Three: The Life and Work of Edward Westermarck1

Chapter Four: The Sociology of Pareto

Chapter Five: Recent Tendencies in Sociology1

Chapter Six: Social Science and Social Philosophy in the Universities1

Part Two

Chapter Seven National Character

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Chapter Eight: German Views of German Mentality1

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Chapter Nine: The Causes of War

Chapter Ten: Anti-Semitism

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Part III

Chapter Eleven: Stammler's Philosophy of Law1

Chapter Twelve: The Concepts of Juridical and Scientific Law

Chapter Thirteen: The Function of Reason in Morals

Chapter Fourteen: The Individualist Basis of International Law and Morals

Chapter Fifteen: The Unity of Mankind

Chapter Sixteen: Moral Progress

Index of Subjects

Index of Names
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Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea: An Essay in Social Philosophy (1956)
by Horace M. Kallen. 210 pgs.

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Preface

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I: Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea

Of Meanings of Culture

Concerning Varieties of Pluralism

Culture and the American Idea

II: Comments and Discussion

The Spirit of Cultural Pluralism

A Reaction to Kallen's Essay

Commitment, Bias, and Tolerance

Reflections of a Wayfaring Layman

Dr. Kallen's Idea of Americanism and Cultural Relativism

Some Thoughts on Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea

Some Queries for Professor Kallen

American Individualism and Horace Kallen's Idea

A Critique of Kallen's Cultural Pluralism

III: Reprise: Pluralism, Culture, Fact, Fantasy, and Faith

Pluralism, Culture, Fact, Fantasy, and Faith
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The Social Philosophy of English Idealism (1962)
by A. J. M. Milne. 320 pgs.

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Introduction

Chapter I: The Concrete Universal

Capter II: F. H. Bradley's Theory Of Morality

Chapter III: T. H. Green's Theory Of Morality

Chapter IV: T. H. Green's Political Philosophy

Chapter V: The Theory of the Absolute

Chapter VI: Humanistic Idealism

Chapter VII Bernard Bosanquet's Political Philosophy

Chapter VIII: The Moral Philosophy And Metaphysics of Josiah Royce

Appendix 1: Sources of Quotations in Text

Appendix 2: Selected Bibliography In Idealist Philosophy
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British Idealism, and Social Explanation: A Study in Late Victorian Thought
by Sandra M. Den Otter. 253 pgs.

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Idealism became the dominant philosophical school of thought in late nineteenth-century Britain. In this original and stimulating study, Sandra den Otter examines its roots in Greek and German thinking and locates it among the prevalent methodologies and theories of the period: empiricism and positivism, naturalism, evolution, and utilitarianism. In particular, she sets it in the context of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debate about a science of society and the contemporary preoccupation with `community'.

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Oxford Historical Monographs

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Introduction

1: Plotting the Idealist Inheritance: Victorian Philosophical Developments

2: Mill, Darwin, and the Idealists: Finding a Basis for Social Explanation

3: Nature, Evolution and Society: The Idealists as Social Evolutionists

4: Sociology and Idealist Social Philosophy

5: 'the Coherence and Continuance of Society': The Individual, Community, and the State

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index
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Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy (1975)
by A. H. Johnson. 214 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Part One Introduction

I: The Meaning of Civilization

II: Interpretation of Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy

I: The Problem of Reconstruction

II: The Study of the Past--Its Uses And Its Dangers

III: Memories

IV: England and the Narrow Seas

V: An Appeal to Sanity

VI: The Importance of Friendly Relations Between England and the United States

VII: The Education of An Englishman

VIII: Harvard: the Future

IX: Historical Changes

X: Universities and Their Function

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Economic Planning and the Tariff: An Essay on Social Philosophy (1934)
by James Gerald Smith. 336 pgs.

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Chapter I Twentieth Century Economic Planning

Chapter II Some Forgotten Lessons of History

Chapter III Twentieth Century Pragmatism

Chapter IV The "Scientific" Twentieth Century

Chapter V The Hidden Costs of Economic Nationalism

Chapter VI The Financial Cost of Economic Nationalism

Chapter VII Economic Nationalism and Monopolies

Chapter VIII Contemporary Fantasies of The Economic Nationalists

Chapter IX A Bewildered Public Opinion on the Issue

Chapter X The Effects of Price Fixing

Chapter XI Economic Planning and the Business Cycle

Chapter XII Recent Efforts at Tariff Reform

Chapter XIII A Realistic Program for Tariff Reform

Chapter XIV Social Progress and a Realistic Theory Of Reform

Appendix I Economists Petition Against the Signing Of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

Appendix Ii Note on the General Average Height Of Rates Under the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930

Appendix Iii Note on the Position of the United States In World Trade

Appendix Iv International Financial and Commercial Relationships of the United States

Appendix V Inflation, Collapse, and Liquidation In International Finance, 1925-1933

Appendix Vi Recent National Legislation Directed Towards the Problem of Competition In Our Foreign Trade

Ii. the Webb-Pomerene Act

Iii. Provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930

Appendix Vii History, Functions and Organization Of The United States Tariff Commission

Index of Authors and Sources Cited and Quoted

General Index
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The Social Philosophy of John Taylor of Caroline: A Study in Jeffersonian Democracy (1939)
by Eugene Tenbroeck Mudge. 232 pgs.

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Human Nature

Moral Principles

Political Theory

INTRODUCTION

Division of Power

Sectionalism

Agrarianism

Defense of Slavery

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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Secularism Is the Will of God: An Essay in the Social Philosophy of Democracy and Religion (1954)
by Horace M. Kallen. 233 pgs.

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1 Of Secularism and the Secularist Idea of God

2 "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" In the American Idea

3 The Global Struggle for "The Laws of Nature And of Nature's God"

4 How Religion Becomes Secularism

5 Democracy, Despotism and Secularism

6 "We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident"

7 Then What is Truth?

8 Truth of Faith and Truth of Fact

9 Will to Believe is Will to Live

10 The War of All Faiths Against All

11 God, the Godless, and Secularism

12 From Infallibilist War to Secularist Peace

13 God as Many and God as One

14 Reasoned Oneness or Mystic Oneness

15 One Impersonal and One Personalized

16 God as Love, Believing as Loving, And Secularism

17 "Deus Absconditus" as Love

18 The Traditionalists' Fear and Appropriation Of Secularism

19 Secularism is God's Love, Reordering Evils into Goods

20 On Some Meanings of Love

21 Virgin Mother and Celibate Fathers

22 Mother-Love as Secularist Faith In Open Society

23 The Secularist Spirit in the Struggle For Open Society in America

24 The Communist Evangel in the Subversion Of Secularism

25 Totalitarian Religions at War For the Minds of Men

26 "Make America Catholic," Extirpate Secularist Heresy

27 The Will of God as the Americanization Of Romanism

28 Love as God, Hate and Idolatry as Salvation

29 Secularism and Humanism

30 Coda: the American Way in Religion

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The Social Thought of the World Council of Churches (Chap. III "The Social Philosophy of the World Council of Churches")
by Edward Duff. 342 pgs.

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Preface

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

I: The History of The World Council of Churches

II: The Nature and Authority of The World Council of Churches

III: The Social Philosophy of The World Council of Churches

IV: The Social Policy of The World Council of Churches

V: Conclusions

Appendix: The 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' Emphases

Bibliogkaphy

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Critical Theory after Habermas: Encounters and Departures (Chap. 2 "Between 'Objectivism' and 'Contextualism': The Normative Foundations of Social Philosophy")
by Dieter Freundlieb, Wayne Hudson, John Rundell. 351 pgs.

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The essays in this book engage with the broad range of J]rgen Habermas' work including politics and the public sphere, nature, aesthetics, the linguistic turn and the paradigm of intersubjectivity. Each essay responds to particular difficulties with Habermas' approach to these topics. Each contributor also draws on different theoretical and philosophical traditions in order to explore recent developments in critical theory.

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Acknowledgments

Reasoning, Language and Intersubjectivity

Between 'Objectivism' and 'Contextualism': the Normative Foundations of Social Philosophy

The Pluralistic Public Sphere from an Ontological Point of View

Irreconcilable Differences? Habermas and Feminism

Postreligious Aesthetics and Critical Theory

Habermas, Schelling and Nature

The Debate About Truth: Pragmatism Without Egulative Ideas

Why Subjectivity Matters: Critical Theory and the Philosophy of the Subject

Subjectivity as Philosophical Principle

Against a Priori Intersubjectivism: an Alternative Inspired by Sartre

The Moral Imaginary of Discourse Ethics

Imaginary Turns in Critical Theory: Imagining Subjects in Tension

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