The great ideas of religion and freedom : : a semiotic reinterpretation of the great ideas movement for the 21st century / / edited by Peter A. Redpath, Imelda Chlodna-Blach and Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 369
• TeilnehmendeR: Redpath, Peter A.,; Chłodna, Imelda,; Mamcarz-Plisiecki, Artur,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 369.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume tests a hypothesis-philosophy and science are identical forms of behavioristic, organizational psychology: a psychological habit of wondering about causes of organizational existence, formation, and behaviour. Focusing attention on two universal and culturally influential great ideas-freedom and religion-this volume's array of international scholars demonstrate that leading ancient and medieval philosophers did philosophy in this way. Also, well-known philosophers/scientists like Mortimer J. Adler and John N. Deely practiced philosophy this way. Doing so is precisely what made these philosophers uniquely capable of generating great ideas as motivational principles that dramatically alter cultures. In a nutshell, this work offers significant support for its historically and philosophically ground-breaking thesis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Peter A. Redpath -- 1 Reflections on Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings about the Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom -- Piotr Jaroszyński -- 2 Free and Religious Actions as Semiotic Effects of the Great Ideas -- Maria Joanna Gondek -- 3 How Commonsense Philosophical Realism Influenced Mortimer J. Adler's Teachings -- Joanna Kiereś-Łach -- 4 Becoming a Masterpiece of Unbending Will -- Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki -- 5 Karol Wojtyła on Semiotically Expressing the Great Ideas of the True and the Good -- Arkadiusz Gudaniec -- 6 How the Great Ideas Can Help Resolve the Contemporary Decline of the West -- Wojciech Daszkiewicz -- 7 Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas -- Katarzyna Stępień -- 8 Czesław Martyniak: The Great Ideas as Motivational Causes -- Rafał Charzyński -- 9 The Great Ideas: Causes of Human Transcendence or Enslavement? -- Tomasz Duma -- 10 Christianity: Friend or Foe of the Great Ideas? -- Robert T. Ptaszek -- 11 Semiotics of Organizational Leadership and Gateway Leadership Induction Technology (GATELIT) -- Marvin B. Daniel Peláez -- 12 Greatness of Character in Classical Confucianism -- Jason Morgan -- 13 The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation -- Adam L. Barborich -- 14 Mortimer J. Adler -- From Annoying Philosophical Bastard to Great Educational Reformer -- Imelda Chłodna-Błach -- Conclusion. -- "Leisure Is the Basis of Culture": Was Josef Pieper Wrong? -- Peter A. Redpath -- Index.