دانلود کتاب Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza: Reason, Religion, and Autonomy

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Translations, conventions, abbreviations
Al-Frb
Aristotle
Augustine
Averroes
Avicenna
Cicero
Clement
Diogenes Laertius
Epicurus
Eusebius of Caesarea
Gregory Thaumaturgus
Hegel
Herbert of Cherbury
Herodotus
Hesiod
Josephus
Kant
Lessing
Maimonides
Mendelssohn
Meyer, Lodewijk
Narboni, Moses
Origen
Philo
Plato
Plotinus
Presocratics
Proclus
Reimarus
Samuel ibn Tibbon
Schiller
Spinoza
Tertullian
Thucydides
Xenophon
Introduction What is a philosophical religion?
Introduction
The concept of a philosophical religion
Theocracy and the perfection of reason
The handmaid of philosophy
Philosophy and religion
Theocracy and autonomy
Contextualism and progress
Tensions in the concept of a philosophical religion
Towards a history of philosophical religions
Reason, religion, and autonomy: revising the conventional wisdom
An encounter between philosophy and religion?
When was autonomy invented?
The Alexandrian project - between Athens and Jerusalem?
Athens and Jerusalem - a perennial conflict?
Spinoza - continuity or break?
Chapter 1 Reason, divine nomoi, and self-rule in Plato
Introduction
Socratic politics
The rule of God as Reason
Why the philosophers life is best
Guiding non-philosophers: the handmaid of philosophy
From coercion to self-rule
The wisdom of non-philosophers
From cultural revolution to philosophical reinterpretation
Divine Law - one or many?
Chapter 2 Moses, Christ, and the universal rule of Reason in antiquity
Introduction
Appropriating the Platonic model: the evidence of Eusebius
Reinterpreting cultural traditions
From the divine nomoi of the Greeks to the divine nomoi of the Jews
Moses and Homer - philosopher-poets?
Judaism as a philosophical religion
Christianity as a philosophical religion
Philosophers in paradise
From Magnesia to a Christian world-state
Chapter 3 Communities of Reason in the Islamic world
Introduction
Plato and Aristotle
Al-Frb on philosophy and the Divine Law
Averroes and Maimonides - disciples of al-Frb?
Islam as a philosophical religion
Judaism as a philosophical religion
Leading non-philosophers out of the cave
Theocracy and autonomy
Medieval Jewish Enlightenment
Between Maimonides and Spinoza: Elijah Delmedigo
Chapter 4 Christianity as a philosophical religion in Spinoza
Introduction
Spinozas early dogmatism
The evidence of Lodewijk Meyer for Spinozas early dogmatism
The concept of a philosophical religion in Spinozas later writings
Religion and the freedom to philosophize
From God as Reason to Deus sive Natura
Interpreting Christianity as a philosophical religion
Were the prophets philosophers after all?
Spinozas critique of religion
Epilogue Did the history of philosophical religions come to an end?
Introduction
Disregarding Spinozas critique of religion from Lessing to Hegel
Philosophys new handmaid? Art as a pedagogical-political program
Making the handmaid redundant: equality as a moral-political value
Prospects of a philosophical religion
Bibliography
Index