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Faith and the Life of Reason

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Springer Netherlands | e druk, 1972
ISBN13: 9789027702753
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Springer Netherlands e druk, 1972 9789027702753
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This book brings together ideas and materials which we have discussed together over the years as friends and colleagues. We draw on four papers published by us both as co-authors and on several more papers published by King-Farlow alone. We wish to thank the editors and publishers of the following journals for permission to make use of matter or points which have appeared in their pages in the years indicated: The Philosophical Quarterly (1957, 1962, 1971); The Thomist (1958, 1971, 1972); The Inter­ national Philosophical Quarterly (1962); Theoria (1963); The Southern Journal of Philosophy (1963); Sophia (1965, 1967, 1969,1971); Philosoph­ ical Studies of Eire (1968, 1970, 1971); Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1968); Analysis (1970); Religious Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1971; we acknowledge a debt to H. D. Lewis, Editor, on page 20). This book is not, however, a collection of reprinted articles. It is a continuous work which deals with a vital cluster of problems in the philosophy of religion. In this work we attempt to utilize both our earlier thoughts, often considerably revised, and our very recent ones in order to argue for the good sense and rationality of making certain strong forms of commitment to some basic elements of primary wisdom in the Judaeo­ Christian tradition. While pursuing the investigations which have led to the writing of this book we have found ourselves becoming indebted to many individuals and institutions.

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ISBN13:9789027702753
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands

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I. Faith-and Faith in Hypotheses.- I. Falsifiable Theism: Sketch of a Position.- II. Hypothetical Faith: Criteria of Rationality.- II. Two Sides to a Theist’s Coin.- I. The Two Sides Distinguished.- I.1. Sartre.- I.2. Norman Malcolm and Peter Geach.- II. The Two Sides and the PROSLOGION.- III. Miracles: Nowell-Smith’s Analysis and Tillich’s Phenomenology.- I. The Matter Briskly Introduced.- II. The Matter Reintroduced.- II.1. Hume’s Critique.- II.2. Nowell-Smith’s Critique.- II.3. Possible Criteria for Miracles.- II.4. Tillich’s Phenomenology of Miracles.- II.5. Comments on Tillich’s Account.- IL.6. Towards a Philosophically Respectable Belief in Miracles.- IV. From “God” to “Is” and from “Is” to “Ought”.- I. Convention and Wisdom About “Meaning” and “Necessity”.- II. Looking Back Without Anger: a Cry from the Fifties.- III. From “God” to “Is”: Good Reasons and Justifying Explanations.- IV. From “God” to “Is” -Some Fallacies about Being A Being.- V. From “God” to “Is”: The Muddled Fear of Calling God A Being.- VI. From “God” to “Is” -Current Confusions about Existence as Necessary and Existence as Predicate.- VII. Existence as Necessary and Existence as Predicate: the Confusions Probed.- VII.1. Existence and Tautologies.- VII.2. Existence CAN be a Property.- VIII. Does “X is a Necessary Being” Entail “X is Timeless”?.- VIII.1. Omniscience.- VIII.2. God as Supreme Purposer.- VIII.3. God as Omnipotent Purposer.- V. From “Is” to “Ought” and from “Ought” to “God”.- I. Some Steps Retraced: “God Exists” as a Necessary Truth.- II. The Necessary Truth Contested: Persons Without Bodies.- III. The Necessary Truth Contested: Appeals to Evil.- III.1. Must Gods Madden Madden?.- III.2. Evil and Other Worlds.- IV. The Necessary Truth Reaffirmed: “No ‘is’ Without ‘OUGHT’ in the Offing”.- V. The Necessary Truth Reaffirmed: “For an ‘OUGHT’ is as Hard as an ‘is’”.- VI. Probability and ‘The Will to Believe’ Introduction.- I. Metaphysics and Probability.- 1.1. Probability and Father Dwyer’s Blending of Aquinas with Wittgenstein.- 1.2. Some Possible Objections on Metaphysics and Probability.- II. ‘Probability’ and Semantic Theories.- II.1. “Probability”, “Meaning” and Semantic Theories.- II.2. Some Golden Eggs Among Toulmin’s Obiter Dicta.- II.3. Some Lexicographical and Etymological Factors.- II.4. Some Senses of “Probability” ?.- II.5. The Contexts of Many Subjective Theories of Probability.- III. Rational Commitment and ‘The Will to Believe’.- III.1. Some Assumptions About James Redivivus.- III.2. James’ Crucial Section I.- III.3. Beard’s Pessimism About ‘The Will to Believe’.- III.4. Some Neo-Jamesian Tools to Clarify Rational Commitment.- VII. Gambling on other Minds- Human and Divine.- I. “Evil”, “Ought” and “Can” as Springboards for the Will to Believe.- I.1. Madhare Back on the March.- I.2. Madhare’s Premises and Bare Presuppositions.- I.3. Possible Consequences from a ‘Normatively Logical Point of View’.- II. ‘Theodicy and Rational Commitment’ or ‘Über Formal ent-scheidbare Sätzenkonjunktionen der Principia Theologica und verwandter Systeme’.- III. Gambling on Deity and Fraternity.- IV. Gambling on Reference and Sense.- VIII. Rational Action, Aquinas and War.- I. An Introduction to Some Confused Modern Thinking About War.- II. ‘A Just War is One Declared by the Duly Constituted Authority’.- III. ‘A Just War Uses Means Proportional to the Ends’.- IV. Farewell to Anti-Martial Muddles?.

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