A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: With "On My Religion"

Rawls, John

ISBN 10: 0674047532 / ISBN 13: 9780674047532

Edité par Harvard University Press, 2010

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• Titre: A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: With "On My Religion"
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674047532
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674047532
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context.

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John Rawls was James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. He was recipient of the 1999 National Humanities Medal. Thomas Nagel is University Professor, Professor of Law, and Professor of Philosophy at New York University. Joshua Cohen is Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University and editor of Boston Review. Robert Merrihew Adams is Clark Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Yale University.