Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion

JUST WAR THEORY 130 account of human nature, both con- sciousness and the collective uncon- scious. In the latter, Jung posited ...

131 JUSTIN MARTYR The concept of justice, however, was not settled by the ancients. Other com- mon disagreements arise from ques ...

132 K KANT, IMMANUEL (1724–1804). Kant challenged the traditional metaphysics and epistemology of his day, creating a new, “tran ...

133 KIERKEGAARD, SØREN human beings as the final purpose of a divine, creative intelligence. Similarly, Religion within the Boun ...

KNOWLEDGE 134 a theologian of his day and age. Even if the latter is true, Kierkegaard’s thought and work had a huge influence o ...

135 L LACAN, JACQUES (1901–1981). The contribution of Jacques Lacan to philo- sophy and the human sciences can be summed up in h ...

LAMAISM 136 of God.” The male Father God remains central to Lacan’s understanding of the social-symbolic structures of language, ...

137 LEVINAS, EMMANUEL the best possible world. Leibniz argued for this on the grounds that God is perfect, rational, and omnipot ...

138 LEWIS, CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS, CLIVE STAPLES (1898–1963). British scholar, writer, poet, Christian apologist, and lay Anglican ...

LOGIC 139 another plane of existence or creation, or they will be re-created at a future res- urrection, or that their souls wil ...

LOGICAL POSITIVISM 140 LOGICAL POSITIVISM. An empiricist movement according to which a proposi- tion is meaningful if and only i ...

141 LUTHER, MARTIN social unravelling of medieval philosophy with the advent of modern science. LUTHER, MARTIN (1483–1546). Mart ...

LYING 142 Luther’s translation of the Bible into the vernacular not only made Scripture accessible to the laity but also helped ...

143 LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS Lyotard argues for a multiplicity of het- erogeneous and so, incommensurable language-games with thei ...

144 M MACKIE, JOHN (1917–1981). An Australian born, Oxford philosopher in the Humean tradition who argued sys- tematically for a ...

145 MANICHAEAISM attempt to synthesize Jewish monotheism and Aristotelian metaphysics. Maimonides stresses the importance of law ...

146 MARCION OF SINOPE often influenced their worldview. In The Confessions, Augustine recounts how he entertained Manichaeism in ...

147 McTAGGART, JOHN McTAGGART ELLIS and that necessary historical forces will lead to the collapse of capitalism and, through a ...

MEANING 148 reacting against his neo-Hegelian idealism, went on to found modern analytic phi- losophy. McTaggart’s chief works i ...

MERCY 149 Confucian philosopher of the classical age. His teachings developed two themes found in the Analects of Confucius: the ...