2. “The God of Our Children”: The Humanist Reconstruction of God

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Acknowledgments XIII
5. Joseph L. Blau: In Appreciation XV
6. Introduction. Joseph Leon Blau: Four Ways of Religion and Philosophy XXIII
7. One. Naturalism and Super naturali sm Revisited
8. Introduction 3
9. 1. John Dewey: The Evolution of a Faith 5
10. 2. “The God of Our Children”: The Humanist Reconstruction of God 35
11. 3. The Supernatural in the Naturalists 53
12. 4. The Esthetic, the Religious, and the Natural 76
13. Two. Perspectives on the History of Judaism
14. Introduction 95
15. 5. Dating a Mishnah-Tractate: The Case of Tamid 97
16. 6. The Creator and the Computer 114
17. 7. Martin Buber and the No-Self Perspective 130
18. Three. American Philosophical Reflections
19. Introduction 153
20. 8. Asa Mahan and the Oberlin Philosophy 155
21. 9. Spires of Influence: The Importance of Emerson for Classical American Philosophy 181
22. 10. Santayana and the Ideal of Reason 203
23. 11. The Development of William James's Epistemological Realism 231
24. Four. The Teacher As Moral Agent
25. Introduction 249
26. 12. The New Censors of Science 251
27. 13. Equality and Excellence in the Democratic Ideal 273
28. 14. Toward a Post-Enlightenment Doctrine of Human Rights 294
29. 15. Schooling and the Search for a Usable Politics 317
30. Joseph L. Blau: A Bibliography 341
31. Index 365
32. Notes on Contributors 377