Divine Teaching and the Way of the World

Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His previous work has focused on Enlightenment moral and political thought, especially that of Kant and Adam Smith, and on conceptions of culture, liberalism and distributive justice. He is the author of A Third Concept of Liberty (Princeton, 1999) and A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004) and editor of Heidegger's Jewish Followers (Duquesne, 2008). In 2009 his book, On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, was given the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award by the American Philosophical Association, for an outstanding book in the philosophy of social science. Since 2010, he has been Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

• Abbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. The Way of the World (I): Truth ; 2. The Way of the World (II): Ethics ; 3. Beyond the Way of the World: Worth ; 4. Divine Teaching ; 5. Divine Teaching and the Way of the World ; Epilogue ; Appendix I: Proofs of God ; Appendix II: Maimonides on the Evidence for Revelation ; Appendix III: Kant on Art and Natural Beauty

an intricate and sophisticated argument for rationally justifying one's taking a religious text as divine revelation. The argument is rich in creative thinking and in its breadth . . . an object of careful discussion serving for progress in philosophy of religion.