Experiencing life and (religious) hope: pragmatic philosophies of religion

• Authors: Ludwig Nagl
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Is pragmatism, as focused on a future considered producible by our finite actions, ill equipped to analyze religion (or “Erlösungswissen”, as Max Scheler said); is it unable, as Stanley Cavell writes, to sufficiently explore “skepticism” and negativity? This paper argues that William James succeeds in pragmatically re-thematizing “Erlösungswissen”, and that Josiah Royce-who develops a post-pragmatic, pragmaticist concept of; religion-carefully re-investigates “negativity”, in a Peirce-inspired mode, by focusing on the “mission of sorrow”.

Keywords

EN

pragmatism; philosophy of religion; “Erlösungswissen”; “mission of sorrow”; Stanley Cavell; Max Scheler; William James; Josiah Royce

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 103-111

Dates

published

2014-01-01

online

2013-12-27

Contributors

author

Ludwig Nagl

• University of Vienna

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0209-x