Awards

• Short-listed for AAR Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion – Constructive-Reflective Studies Awarded by the American Academy of Religion 2023 (United States)

Overview

The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament. Abraham, the first biblical philosopher, calls out to the world in God's name exactly as Plato calls out in the name of the Forms. Abraham comes forward as a critic of pagan thought about, specifically, persons. Moses, to whom the baton is passed, spells out the practical implications of the Bible's core anthropological teachings. In Persons and Other Things Mark Glouberman explores the Bible's philosophy, roughing out in the course of a defence of it how men and women who see themselves in the biblical portrayal (as he argues that most of us do once the ""religious"" glare is reduced) are committed to conduct their personal affairs, arrange their social ties, and act in the natural world. Persons and Other Things is also the author's testament about the practice of philosophy. Glouberman sets out the lessons he has acquired as a lifelong learner about thinking philosophically, about writing philosophy, and about philosophers.

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Glouberman invokes fundamental principles in each of these quite varied essays. In Genesis 1, God creates the natural world (including humans); nature is a complete system, in process, and in which individuals can be individuated by their place in the system. But God's resting on the seventh day indicates that He is a particular, not in the system. Nature doesn't rest. Thus human beings, considered as particulars rather than as individuals, constitute limits to naturalism. - Steven Burns, Professor of Philosophy, Dalhousie University In Persons and Other Things, Mark Glouberman emphasizes that the philosophy of Genesis stands or falls as philosophy and is distinct from religion or theology. Glouberman conveys the Hebrew philosophers' insights through an original interpretation of Genesis 1 and 2. To further deepen his position about the relevance of the Bible to Western philosophy, Glouberman shows that the biblical philosophy of non-naturalism supports or undermines the central positions of important contemporary philosophers such as P.F. Strawson, Charles Taylor, and Thomas Nagel. - Richard Keshen, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Cape Breton University

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Mark Glouberman is an instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

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