| Description |
xlii, 1230 pages 24 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Introduzione all'ateismo moderno. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1155-1202). |
| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a delimitation of the notion of atheism -- I. Present-day atheism as a universal positive phenomenon -- II. Theoretical features in the problematic of atheism -- III. Critique of the notion of atheism -- IV. Atheism and dialectic of the notion of God -- V. Structural features of modern atheism -- VI. Atheism and the principle of contradiction -- VII. Atheism as a logical conclusion in present-day rationalism -- VIII. Conclusion: Curtain up on the tragedy of modern man! -- Appendices -- Difficulties surrounding any definition of atheism -- The Atheism's Faith -- Religion, superstition and atheism -- Negative atheism (Bouterwek) -- From skepticism to atheism (G. Rensi) -- Part I: Controversies surrounding the atheism of rationalism -- I. Ontological Apriorim and atheism of the Cartesian Cogito -- III. Religion, morality and atheism in P. Bayle -- Appendices -- Descartes and Pascal -- Spinoza's religious sentiments -- Anti-Spinozan Polemial writings -- Henry More on Cartesian mechanism and atheism -- Kuyper-More critique of Spinoza's atheism -- John Toland's hesitation concerning Bayle's hypothesis -- Montenesquieu and the "Paradox of Bayle" -- Rousseau and the inconsistence of Bayle's thesis -- Voltaire and the absurdity of Bayle's hypothesis -- Natural law and atheism (Pufendorf) -- Spedalieri on the impossibility of a society of atheists -- Part II. Deism and atheism in English empiricism -- I. Cartesian bifurcation of being and the new materialism -- III. Theistic deism and atheism in Shaftesbury -- IV. Deism displayed and flayed (Locke, Toland, Berkeley) -- V. Atheistic elements in the religious skepticism of David Hume -- VI. Conclusion: the atheistic implications of deism -- Appendices -- Joseph Butler's refutation of Shaftesbury's naturalism -- John Brown's critique of Shaftsbury -- A prayer to God by Shaftesbury -- Collins and Free-thought -- Deism and Atheism in Hume -- Theologian's reaction to deism (The Boyle's lectures) -- Catholic critique of deism (Valsecchi) -- Part III. Enlightenment Atheism -- I. Cartesian and Lockeian Origins of 18th-Century -- II. Atheist Materialism -- III. La Mettrie's Hedonistic Atheism -- IV. Helvetius' Sensualistic Atheism -- V. Transition from Deism to Atheism in Diderot -- Baron d'Holbach's Materialistic Atheism -- VI. Abbe Meslier's Radical Atheism -- Appendices -- D'Holbach -- Supplementary Marginal Notes -- Condemnation by the French Episcopate -- Condemnation of Helvetius' "De L'Esprit" -- Decree of the High Court -- Cartesian inspiration of the Espion Turc -- Voltaire and the Systeme de la Nature -- Judgment of Laharpe and Diderot on Helvetius -- Anonymous defense of Helvetious' "De L'Esprit" -- Catholic apologetics and enlightenment philosophy -- Part IV. Disintegration of idealism into atheism -- I. The Spinoza controversy (Spinozasstreit: Lessing-Jacobi) as catalyst of the disintegration of rationalism into idealist atheism -- II. Chiaroscuro of the atheism controversy ("Atheismusstreit") (Forberg-Fichte) -- III. Disintegration of idealism into atheistic pantheism -- (Schelling-Hegel) -- IV. Idealist theologizing and immanentist atheism -- Appendices -- Forerunners of atheism in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment -- Forerunners of Forberg -- Schlegel, Goethe, Herder and Spinoza -- Spinozan atheism and the structural pattern of transcendental idealism (Fichte) -- Evolution of Fichte's philosophy of religion -- Ambiguity and crypto-atheism of Hegel's theology -- von Baader's critique of Hegelian Spinozism -- A modern interpretation of Hegel's anthropological atheism (Kojeve) -- Charge of atheism against Herbart. |
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V. Atheistic elements in the religious skepticism of David Hume -- VI. Conclusion: the atheistic implications of deism -- Appendices -- Joseph Butler's refutation of Shaftesbury's naturalism -- John Brown's critique of Shaftsbury -- A prayer to God by Shaftesbury -- Collins and Free-thought -- Deism and Atheism in Hume -- Theologian's reaction to deism (The Boyle's lectures) -- Catholic critique of deism (Valsecchi) -- Part III. Enlightenment Atheism -- I. Cartesian and Lockeian Origins of 18th-Century -- II. Atheist Materialism -- III. La Mettrie's Hedonistic Atheism -- IV. Helvetius' Sensualistic Atheism -- V. Transition from Deism to Atheism in Diderot -- Baron d'Holbach's Materialistic Atheism -- VI. Abbe Meslier's Radical Atheism -- Appendices -- D'Holbach -- Supplementary Marginal Notes -- Condemnation by the French Episcopate -- Condemnation of Helvetius' "De L'Esprit" -- Decree of the High Court -- Cartesian inspiration of the Espion Turc -- Voltaire and the Systeme de la Nature -- Judgment of Laharpe and Diderot on Helvetius -- Anonymous defense of Helvetious' "De L'Esprit" -- Catholic apologetics and enlightenment philosophy -- Part IV. Disintegration of idealism into atheism -- I. The Spinoza controversy (Spinozasstreit: Lessing-Jacobi) as catalyst of the disintegration of rationalism into idealist atheism -- II. Chiaroscuro of the atheism controversy ("Atheismusstreit") (Forberg-Fichte) -- III. Disintegration of idealism into atheistic pantheism -- (Schelling-Hegel) -- IV. Idealist theologizing and immanentist atheism -- Appendices -- Forerunners of atheism in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment -- Forerunners of Forberg -- Schlegel, Goethe, Herder and Spinoza -- Spinozan atheism and the structural pattern of transcendental idealism (Fichte) -- Evolution of Fichte's philosophy of religion -- Ambiguity and crypto-atheism of Hegel's theology -- von Baader's critique of Hegelian Spinozism -- A modern interpretation of Hegel's anthropological atheism (Kojeve) -- Charge of atheism against Herbart -- Part V. Explicit and constructive post-Hegelian atheism -- I. The Hegelian dialectic: a bridge of atheism (Baurer, Strauss) II. From Hegelian theology to anthropology (Feuerbach) -- III. Anthropological atheism to naturalistic atheism (Engles) -- IV. The atheism of dialectical materialism (Marx) -- V. The socio-political atheism of Lenin -- VI. The positive atheism of Marxist Humanism -- Appendices -- Carlyle, Engels and atheism -- Reason and the existence of God: Marx, Schelling, Hegel -- Part VI. The religious atheism of Anglo-American empiricism -- I. The problematic of the "Empirical Principle" -- II. Conjunction of the absolute with the finite in empirical idealism (Bradley-Royce) -- III. The demotion of God to the status of an emergent cosmic ideal (Morgan-Alexander) -- IV. Concrescence of dispersion of God into the world (Whitehead) -- V. Truth as action and the vanishing of God in Dewey -- Appendices -- English personality atheism (McTaggart) -- The finite God and Catholic theology -- The humanist manifesto of American atheism -- Part VII. Freedom as an active denial of God in existentialism -- I. The "death of God" in the vitalistic irrationalism of Schopenhauer and Nietzche -- II. The "death of God" as a structural judgment of the modern "cognito;" The end of the metaphysic of essences (Platonism) -- III. The flight from the absolute in Jaspers -- IV. The "want" of God and the inescapable God-problem in Heidegger -- V. Patent atheism in French existentialism -- VI. Essence and existence: the "forgottenness of being" -- Appendices -- Nature and the "sacral" in Heidegger -- Part VIII. Theology of atheism dialectical theology and death-of-God theology -- I. The repudiation of "Natural Theology" (Barth) -- II. The radical bankruptcy of the natural knowledge of God (Bultmann) -- III. Existential reason dissolved into atheism (Tillich) -- IV. Death-of-God theology and the end of religion (Bonhoeffer) -- V. Toward an "atheistic theology" (John A.T. Robinson) -- Appendices -- Kierkegaard and dialectical theology -- Bonhoeffer and the meaninglessness of metaphysico-theological language -- Bonhoeffer's diagnosis of modern atheism -- Demythologization existential atheism and theism -- From dialectical theology to "radical theology" (John A.T. Robinson) -- Meanings of and attitude to "The end of the age of religion" -- Part IX. The inner nucleus of modern atheism -- I. The virtual atheism of the principle of immanentism -- II. Disjunction of act and content in the atheistic precipitate of idealism (Fichte-Hegel-Von Baader) -- III. Modern principle of immanentism or conjunction and Thomist principle of transcendence orcausality -- IV. Principle of immanentism and modern science -- V. Conclusion: immanentism and atheism: two terms with but a single fate. |
| Subject |
Atheism -- History -- Modern period, 1500-
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Atheism -- Modern period.
(OCoLC)fst01906795
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Introduzione all'ateismo moderno. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Fabro, Cornelio. Introduzione all'ateismo moderno. English. God in exile: modern atheism. Westminster, Md., Newman Press [1968] (OCoLC)644535912 |
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