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Overview"In this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how ""partial truths"" are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary—those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil—and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Donald A. CrosbyPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438471341ISBN 10: 1438471343 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 02 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Religion The Dao and Other Religious Ultimates that Cannot Be Spoken A God of All Creation and of All Peoples Transcendence and Immanence in Religion of Nature The Paradox of Existential Certitude 2. Science The Claim to Scientific Objectivity Assumptions Lying Behind Scientific Reasoning The Need for Dialogue between Science and Other Fields of Thought Science and the Future 3. Morality Truth and Goodness Aristotle and Mill Hobbes and Hume Kant and Rawls Obligations to Nature and All the Creatures of Nature 4. Economics and Ecology Earth as Warehouse of Resources for Human Use Free Markets Automatically and Maximally Benefit Everyone Healthy Economic Systems Always Exhibit Steady Growth Globalization is Beneficial to Everyone Government Deficits are Bad and Should Always be Avoided to the Greatest Possible Extent Capitalism is Always Good and Any Tendency to Socialism is Bad Wheeling and Dealing Partiality of Truths as Excuses for Inaction 5. Philosophy Facts and Values Continuity and Novelty Rationalism and Empiricism Mind-Body Dualism and Reductionism Good and Evil 6. Humanity Stunted and Soaring Trees Signs of Approaching Disaster Signs of Hope 7. Perspectives Perspectival Realism The Necessary Perspectivity of a God’s-Eye View of the World Epistemic Norms Concluding Comments Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsIn this book, Donald A. Crosby defends the idea that all claims to truth are at best partial. Recognizing this, he argues, is a necessary safeguard against arrogance, close-mindedness, and potentially violent reactions to differences of outlook and practice. Crosby demonstrates how partial truths are inevitably at work in conversations and debates about religion, science, morality, economics, ecology, and social and political progress. He then focuses on the concept in the discipline of philosophy, looking at a number of distinctions that are taken to be strictly binary-those between fact and value, continuity and novelty, rationalism and empiricism, mind and body, and good and evil-and demonstrates how in all of these cases, each on its own can offer only an incomplete picture. Partial Truths and Our Common Future invites ongoing dialogue with others for the sake of mutual enlargements of understanding rather than mere civility, and provides incentive for continuing open-minded and shared inquiries into the important issues of life. This is a transdisciplinary philosophical work that moves with grace across traditions, time periods, and thinkers. It is a master class in the existential and public relevance of philosophy and a rare example of a book that is both timely and timeless. - Michael S. Hogue, author of The Promise of Religious Naturalism Author InformationDonald A. Crosby is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Colorado State University and the author of many books, including More Than Discourse: Symbolic Expressions of Naturalistic Faith; Nature as Sacred Ground: A Metaphysics for Religious Naturalism; and The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Seven Types of Everyday Miracle, all published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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