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This collection of essays explores convergences and divergences
between process thought and Roman Catholicism with the goal of
identifying reasons for why process philosophy and theology has not
had the same impact in Roman Catholic circles as in Protestantism,
and of constructively navigating avenues of promising engagement
between Process thought and Roman Catholicism. In creatively
considering the Roman Catholic tradition from the vantage point of
Process thought, different theoretical perspectives are brought to
bear on Catholic characteristics of historical theology,
fundamental theology, systematic theology, moral theology, social
justice, and theology of religions. While the contributors draw
upon a broad range of resources from the disciplines of the
physical and social sciences, philosophy, and ethics from a process
perspective, the primary methodology employed is theological
reflection.
This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which
brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers:
Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Each has drawn from a
wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of
becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of
limitation. In bringing together internationally renowned
interpreters of Butler and Whitehead from a variety of fields and
disciplines philosophy, rhetoric, gender and queer studies,
religion, literary and political theory the editors hope to set a
standard for the relevance of interdisciplinary philosophical
discourse today. This volume offers a unique contribution to and
for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology,
and the arts, by reaching beyond their closed circles toward
understandings that may serve as the basis for the activation of
humanity today. Considered together, Butler and Whitehead delineate
a whole new cadre of approaches to long-standing problems as well
as never-before asked questions in the humanities.
Daniel A. Dombrowski brings together the thought of the
20th-century philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls,
with the thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North
Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political
liberalism is intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming
it 'process liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in
contrast to four potentially troublesome sources or influences:
metaphysics, religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics.
Dombrowski engages a series of interlocutors and alternative
positions including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin
Heidegger and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling,
intricate and resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based
on Rawlsian principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future
environmental ethics.
Argues for political liberalism as a process-oriented view and
process philosophy as a politically liberal view Daniel A.
Dombrowski brings together the thought of the 20th-century
philosophy's greatest political liberal, John Rawls, with the
thought of the great process philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead
and Charles Hartshorne. He shows that political liberalism is
intimately linked with process philosophy, renaming it 'process
liberalism'. He justifies this process liberalism in contrast to
four potentially troublesome sources or influences: metaphysics,
religion, right-wing politics and left-wing politics. Dombrowski
engages a series of interlocutors and alternative positions
including Franklin I. Gamwell, Timothy D. Snyder, Martin Heidegger
and Karl Marx. In conclusion, he offers a compelling, intricate and
resourceful argument for nonhuman animal rights based on Rawlsian
principles, which in turn forms the basis of a future environmental
ethics.
Considered by many to be one of the greatest philosophers of
religion and metaphysicians of the twentieth century, Charles
Hartshorne (1897-2000) addressed questions of aesthetics throughout
his long career. Yet his efforts in this area are perhaps the most
neglected aspect of his extensive and highly nuanced thought.
"Divine Beauty" offers the first detailed explication of
Hartshorne's aesthetic theory and its place within his theocentric
philosophy.
As Daniel A. Dombrowski explains, Hartshorne advanced a
neoclassical or process theism that contrasted with the "classical"
theism defended by traditionalist Jews, Christians, and Muslim
believers. His conception of God was dipolar, which could attribute
to God certain qualities that traditionalists would exclude. For
example, in Hartshorne's view, God can embrace excellent aspects of
both activity and passivity, or of permanence and change; classical
theists, on the other hand, exclude passivity and change from their
conceptions.
Dombrowski goes on to explain the ramifications of Hartshorne's
view of God for aesthetics, which for him had both broad and narrow
meanings: all sensory feeling or sensation, in the broad sense, and
a disciplined feeling for beauty, in the narrow sense. Included are
discussions on Hartshorne's famous appreciation for the aesthetics
of bird song; his view of beauty as a mean between two sets of
extremes; his idea of the aesthetic attitude, which concentrates on
values that are intrinsic and immediately felt; and the place of
death in his aesthetics, in which the value of our lives consists
in the beauty or intensity of experience that we contribute to the
divine life.
Filling an important gap in our understanding of Hartshorne,
"Divine Beauty" also makes a persuasive case for the superiority of
his neoclassical theism over classical theism.
To probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order,
John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that
abstracted from many of the details of ordinary life. But this very
abstraction became a point of criticism, as it left unclear the
implications of his theory for public policies and life in the real
political world. Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied
Philosophy attempts to ferret out those implications, filling the
gap between Rawls's own empyrean heights and the really practical
public policy proposals made by government planners, lobbyists, and
legislators. Among the topics examined are natural rights, the
morality of war, the treatment of mentally deficient humans and
nonhuman sentient creatures, the controversies over legacy and
affirmative action in college admissions, and the place of
religious belief in a democratic society. The final chapter
explores how Rawls's own religious beliefs, as revealed in two
works posthumously published in 2009, played into his formulation
of his theory of justice.
Both its defenders and detractors have described the argument from
marginal cases as the most important to date in defense of animal
rights. Hotly debated among philosophers for some twenty years, the
argument concludes that no morally relevant characteristic
distinguishes human beings - including infants, the severely
retarded, the comatose, and other marginal cases - from any other
animals. Babies and Beasts presents the first book-length
exploration of the broad range of views relating to the argument
from marginal cases and sorts out and evaluates its various uses
and abuses. Daniel Dombrowski analyzes the views of many who are
prominent in the debate - Peter Singer, Thomas Regan, H. J.
McCloskey, Jan Narveson, John Rawls, R. G. Frey, Peter Carruthers,
Michael Leahy, Robert Nozick, and James Rachels are included - in a
volume that will be essential to philosophers, animal rights
activists, those who work in clinical settings, and others who must
sometimes deal with marginal cases.
In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics
have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic
and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have
primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional,
and problematic, concept of God. In this 2006 volume, Daniel A.
Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its
contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or
process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a
contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of
Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction
between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables
neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the
familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an
abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids
the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics
have been criticized by philosophers working in both the analytic
and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have
primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional,
and problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A.
Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its
contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or
process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a
contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of
Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction
between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables
neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the
familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an
abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids
the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
The Catholic Church has always opposed abortion, but--contrary to
popular belief--not always for the same reasons. This tightly
argued, historically grounded study sets out to demonstrate that a
"pro-choice" stance, now held by a significant minority of
Catholics, is as fully justified by Catholic thought as an
antiabortion view. A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion
argues that the current Catholic antiabortion stance is justified
neither by modern embryology nor by ancient church teachings.
Combining up-to-date information on fetal development with a
thorough grasp of the works of the church's early thinkers (such as
Sts. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas), Daniel A. Dombrowski and Robert
Deltete expose crucial contradictions between the early and the
modern Church's views of abortion.
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