Book Review of Ronald Dworkin’s ‘Religion Without God’
Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …
Unedited version – Submitted. The late Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal theory in New York and UCL, was …
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
‘We give here some Divine injunctions handed down as Holy Traditions [ahadith qudsiyah], and sound hadiths. The Messenger of God, …
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause — …
‘What I really need is to get clear about what I am to do*, not what I must know, except …
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche, [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.