Author	Luijpen, William A., 1922-, author
Title	Myth and Metaphysics [electronic resource] / by William A. Luijpen
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1976
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1357-4
Descript	VIII, 186 p. online resource

This book is an attempt to interpret man's religious existence, an interยญ pretation for which some of the groundwork was laid by the author's book PHENOMENOLOGY AND ATHEISM (Duquesne University Press, 2nd impression, 1965). That work explored the "denial" of God by the leading atheists and came to terms with the most typical forms assumed by their "denials". Nevertheless, I am not an adherent of atheism. The reason why it is possible to agree with many "atheists" without becoming one of them is that man can misunderstand his own religiousness or lapse into an inauthentic form of being a believer. What many "atheists" unmask is one or the other form of pseudo-religiousness which should be unmasked. On the other hand, I have also constantly refused to identify religiousness with such inauthentic forms and to define it in terms of those forms - just as I refuse to identify the appendix with appendicitis, the heart with an infarct, the psyche as a disturbance, and marriage as a fight. The book offered here has been written since the rise of the radical "God is dead" theology. This "theology" without God has often been presented as the only form of theological thought still suitable for "modern man". As the reader will notice, I reject the brash facility with which some "modern men" measure the relevance of "anything" by its "modernity"

One: Mythical Speaking โAboutโ God -- 1. The Rejection of Myths and the โDenialโ of God -- 2. The Rejection of Myths and the โAffirmationโ of God -- 3. Mythical Speaking as Authentic Speaking โAboutโ God -- 4. Retrospect and Prospect -- Two: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the โNegationโ of God -- Analytic Philosophy -- Rudolf Carnap -- Ayer -- Flew -- Hare -- Findlay -- Three: the Rejection of Metaphysics and the โAffirmationโ of God -- 1. Kantโs So-called โAgnosticismโ -- 2. The Intellectualism and Objectivism of Christian Thought -- 3. The โOvercoming of Metaphysicsโ in Heidegger -- Four: the Acceptance of Metaphysics and the โAffirmationโ of God -- 1. The Objectivistic Tradition: Lakebrink -- 2. The Spiritualistic-Monastic Tradition -- 3. Logical Empiricism -- Five: Hermeneutics of Religious Existence -- 1. The Calling of the Name โGodโ -- 2. The Proper Character of Religious Language -- 3. Speaking โAboutโ God is Speaking About Man -- 4. Christian Religiousness -- Six: Religious Existence and Metaphysical Speech -- The God of Philosophers -- Rejection of the โProofsโ for Godโs Existence by the Religious Man -- โThe Conclusion of a โProofโ for Godโs Existence Can Never Be Trueโ -- The Metaphysical โProofโ for the Existence of โGodโ -- Metaphysics in the Sciences -- Regional Ontologies -- Metaphysics in the Strict Sense -- Parmenides -- Affirmation in Negation -- โThe Metaphysical in Manโ -- โWhy is There Something Rather Than Nothing?โ -- Conclusion

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