03069nam a2200529Ka 4500 ocn820720054 OCoLC 20200709055638.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121210s2003 dcu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780813218212 (electronic bk.) 0813218217 (electronic bk.) 0813213088 9780813213088 081321307X 9780813213071 (OCoLC)820720054 500915 (N$T) BL51 .D62 2003eb REL 017000 bisacsh REL 113000 bisacsh REL 054000 bisacsh 200 22 08.37 bcl N$TA Dougherty, Jude P., 1930- The logic of religion [electronic resource] / Jude P. Dougherty. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2003. 1 online resource (178 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index. The logic of religion presents an examination of the nature of religion from a philosophical perspective. In successive chapters classical, medieval, and modern authors are canvassed for their views. Even among those who find no evidence for the existence of God, we encounter discussions of the nature of religion and its function in society. This study begins in antiquity with Socrates, Plato, Cicero, and Seneca. It then moves through Augustine to the Middle Ages as represented by Averroes and Aquinas. By so proceeding, the author gives the reader insight into the nature and logic of religion as conceived before and after the advent of Christianity. Subsequent investigation leads to a consideration of the work of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and G.W.F. Hegel, in whose philosophies we find not only an account of the logic of religion but an appreciation of its implications in the practical order, and of Sigmund Freud's negative assessment of religion in The future of an illusion. Although the focus of this study is primarily Western religion, attention is also paid to selected oriental modes of thought, some properly called "religion" in the Western sense, others more akin to philosophy than religion. Description based on print version record. Religion Philosophy. Godsdienstfilosofie. gtt Religionsphilosophie swd RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh RELIGION / Essays bisacsh RELIGION / Reference bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Dougherty, Jude P., 1930- Logic of religion. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2003 0813213088 (DLC) 2002020113 (OCoLC)48920298 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=500915 EBSCOhost EBSC 500915 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51953 51953