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    Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love, a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bea…Read more
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    Kierkegaard
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.
    The first comprehensive introduction to cover the entire span of Kierkegaard’s authorship. Explores how the two strands of his writing—religious discourses and pseudonymous literary creations—influenced each other Accompanies the reader chronologically through all the philosopher’s major works, and integrates his writing into his biography Employs a unique “how to” approach to help the reader discover individual texts on their own and to help them closely examine Kierkegaard’s language Presents …Read more
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    Hume and Imagination: Sympathy and “the Other”
    International Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1): 39-57. 1994.
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    Religion’s ‘Foundation in Reason’
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 565-581. 1994.
    David Hume’s critique of religion reveals what seems to be a vacillation in his commitment to an argument-based paradigm of legitimate believing. On the one hand, Hume assumes such a traditional model of rational justification of beliefs in order to point to the weakness of some classical arguments for religious belief, to chastise the believer for extrapolating to a conclusion which outstrips its evidential warrant. On the other hand, Hume, ‘mitigated’ or naturalist skeptic that he is, at other…Read more
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    Kierkegaard and the Concept of Revelation (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (4): 974-976. 1997.
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    John Locke and the Ethics of Belief (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (4): 1105-1107. 1999.
  •  1
    Looking Back and Looking Ahead
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Looking Back – The Retrospectives Looking Back – The Attack Looking Back – Dialectical Tension Looking Ahead.
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    Practice in Christianity, Discourses, and the “Attack”
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Practice in Christianity Discourses (1850, 1851) The “Attack” further reading.
  •  4
    The Sickness unto Death and Discourses
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Sickness unto Death Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays further reading.
  •  3
    Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Two Ages
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments A Literary Review: Two Ages further reading.
  •  2
    Works of Love, Discourses, and Other Writings
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits Works Of Love: Some Christian Deliberations in the Form of Discourses Christian Discourses The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress The Point of View for My Work as an Author Three Godly Discourses further reading.
  •  2
    Repetition, Fear and Trembling, and More Discourses
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Repetition Fear and Trembling More Upbuilding Discourses of 1843 further reading.
  •  3
    Introduction: Reading Kierkegaard
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Visual Introduction The Contemporary Discussion – Kierkegaard the Writer.
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    Either – Or and the First Upbuilding Discourses
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Either – Or Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843) further reading.
  • Index
    In Steven Nadler (ed.), Kierkegaard, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-17.
    The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Wiley Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface List of Abbreviations.
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    Hume's Natural History: Religion and Explanation
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (4): 593-611. 1995.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume's Natural History: Religion and "Explanation" M. JAMIE FERREIRA HUME'S BOLDLYSIMPLESTATEMENTof the genesis of religion--that "the anxious concern for happiness, the dread of future misery, the terror of death, the thirst for revenge, the appetite for food and other necessaries" led humankind to see "the first obscure traces of divinity"--is supported by appeals to what he considers plain common sense.' For example, given that at…Read more
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    Hume's Natural History: Religion and "Explanation"
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (4): 593. 1995.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume's Natural History: Religion and "Explanation" M. JAMIE FERREIRA HUME'S BOLDLYSIMPLESTATEMENTof the genesis of religion--that "the anxious concern for happiness, the dread of future misery, the terror of death, the thirst for revenge, the appetite for food and other necessaries" led humankind to see "the first obscure traces of divinity"--is supported by appeals to what he considers plain common sense.' For example, given that at…Read more
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    John Locke and the Ethics of Belief
    Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 59 (4): 1105-1107. 1996.
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    Total Altruism" in Levinas's "Ethics of the Welcome
    Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (3). 2001.
    Levinas's ethics of other-centered service has been criticized at the theoretical level for failing to offer a conception of moral agency adequate to ground its imperative and at the practical level for encouraging self-hatred. Levinas's explicit resistance to the incorporation of the phrase "as yourself" in the Judaeo-Christian love command might seem to validate the critics' complaints. The author argues, on the contrary, that Levinas does offer a strong and compelling conception of moral agen…Read more
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    This book examines the significantly similar, yet finally different, thinking of two nineteenth-century existentialist thinkers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Its focus is on the different ways each envisioned a joyful acceptance of life - a concern they shared. Each strove to give a place to this acceptance in his picture of life, but their conceptions of it are far apart.
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Ann Hartle, William Kluback, Dean M. Martin, Edward L. Schoen, and H. A. Nielsen
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 32 (3): 185-189. 1992.
  • Book reviews (review)
    with Ann Hartle, William Kluback, Dean M. Martin, Edward L. Schoen, and H. A. Nielsen
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 32 (3): 183-194. 1992.
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    Works of Love (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (3): 350-352. 1997.
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    Much has been made of the Kierkegaardian flavour of Wittgenstein's thought on religion, both with respect to its explicit allusions to Kierkegaard and its implicit appeals. Even when significant disparities between the two are noted, there remains an important core of de facto methodological agreement between them, addressing the limits of theory and the dispelling of illusion. The categories of ‘nonsense’ and ‘paradox’ are central to Wittgenstein's therapeutic enterprise, while the categories o…Read more
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    The Philosophy In Christianity (review)
    Faith and Philosophy 10 (2): 271-275. 1993.
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    Total Altruism” in Levinas’s “Ethics of The Welcome
    Journal of Religious Ethics 29 (3): 443-470. 2001.
    Levinas’s ethics of other‐centered service has been criticized at the theoretical level for failing to offer a conception of moral agency adequate to ground its imperative and at the practical level for encouraging self‐ hatred. Levinas’s explicit resistance to the incorporation of the phrase ”as yourself“ in the Judaeo‐Christian love command might seem to validate the critics’ complaints. The author argues, on the contrary, that Levinas does offer a strong and compelling conception of moral age…Read more
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    Seeing (Just) Is Believing
    Faith and Philosophy 9 (2): 151-167. 1992.