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Revisions: a Series of Books on Ethics Ser.: Flight from Authority : Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy by Jeffrey Stout (1981, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-100268009546
ISBN-139780268009540
eBay Product ID (ePID)4562858
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFlight from Authority : Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy
SubjectEpistemology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Theory, Religious, Philosophy
Publication Year1981
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy, Political Science
AuthorJeffrey Stout
SeriesRevisions: a Series of Books on Ethics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN81-002340
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews...the first extended application of Rortyian insights and methods to subjects that interest those of us in religious studies: the secularization of discourse, religious epistemology, religious ethics, inter alia., "...the first extended application of Rortyian insights and methods to subjects that interest those of us in religious studies: the secularization of discourse, religious epistemology, religious ethics, inter alia." --Religious Studies Review
SynopsisJeffrey Stout argues that modern thought was born in a crisis of authority, took shape in flight from authority, and aspired to autonomy from all traditional influence. The quest for autonomy was an attempt to begin completely anew. As such it was bound to fail. Stout traces the secularization of public discourse and its effect on the relation between theism and culture as well as the severance of morality from traditional moorings in favor of autonomy. He is unabashedly historical in his approach, defending the thesis that all thought is historically conditioned and that historical insight is essential to self-understanding. Each section of the book takes up a major problem in contemporary philosophy - the nature of knowledge, the rationality of religious belief, the autonomy of morality- and sets that problem against the background of early modern disputes over authority. The result is simultaneously a critique of ahistorical biases, a survey of major developments in modern thought, and a normative treatment of the problems addressed. The book culminates in the final section with an account of post-Kantian concern with the autonomy of morals. Morality attained relative independence as a form of discourse only in the modern period, but the nature of this independence is distorted when construed in foundationalist or Kantian terms. After criticizing methodological assumptions in recent moral philosophy and religious ethics, Stout sketches his own account of the emergence of autonomy for morality, stressing the need for substantial rethinking of the relationship between religion and ethics. In a concluding chapter, he places his own position in relation to the philosophical tradition descendant from Hegel.
LC Classification NumberBJ1012
