Essays about: "Hilary Putnam"

Found 2 essays containing the words Hilary Putnam.

1. 1. With Cold Foreign Eyes? Existential Meaning in Truth vs. Mystery in Religion and Art

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

   Author : Linus Edenwall; [2014]
   Keywords : meaning; mystery; mysticism; sensuousness; immediacy; ineffability; truth; objectivity; existentialism; science; art; concepts; conceptualization; Philosophy and Religion;

   Abstract : This essay explores two approaches to finding existential meaning in religion: either by an approach advocating feelings of mystery and sensuous immediacy, thus justifying an ineffability of mysterious experiences, or by an approach which advocates truth and objectivity. Although the latter approach views truth in existential terms (“existential truth”) it can be criticised for diminishing the “magic” of religion much in the same way science does in its pursuit of material truth. READ MORE

3. 2. Putnam's Moral Realism

   University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

   Author : Björn Persson; [2013]
   Keywords : Moral realism; moral epistemology; relativism; idealized rational acceptability; ideal terminus; fact-value distinction; Hilary Putnam; Richard Rorty;

   Abstract : Moral realism is the view that there are such things as moral facts. Moral realists have attempted to combat the skeptical problem of relativism, which is that the truth of an ethical value judgment is often, or always, subjective, that is, relative to the parties it involves. READ MORE