The logic of the heart: Augustine, Pascal, and the rationality of faith

Introduction: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "embeddedness" of reason -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the postmodern world? -- Skeptics of modernity: embedded rationality versus rational autonomy -- Embedded reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume a...

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Main Author: Peters, James R. 1957- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. Baker Academic c 2009
In:Year: 2009
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430 / Rationalism / Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662 / Hume, David 1711-1776
B Hume, David 1711-1776 / Theism / Scepticism
B Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662 / Paradox / Faith / Wisdom
Further subjects:B Pascal Blaise 1623-1662
B Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo
B Faith History of doctrines
B Hume, David (1711-1776)
B Augustine of Hippo, Saint (354-430)
B Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
B Hume David 1711-1776
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Summary:Introduction: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "embeddedness" of reason -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the postmodern world? -- Skeptics of modernity: embedded rationality versus rational autonomy -- Embedded reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic apologists: human wisdom as passionate self-knowledge -- Hume, Pascal, and the humility of reason -- Hume's skepticism and the wisdom of the heart -- Hume's epistemological refutation of theism -- Three answers from the enquiry -- Hume's attack on and misunderstanding of miracles -- Hume's psychological refutation of theism -- Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal): opposing rationalities in conflict -- Pascal, paradox, and the wisdom of the heart -- Pascal and the rationality of faith -- Pascal's dialectical defense of faith -- Pascal's teleological apologetics -- Pascal: faith is rational but beyond reason -- Pascal's wager: unmasking skeptical neutrality -- Pascal versus fideism: faith is not contrary to reason -- Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle: conclusions -- A dialectical defense of Pascal's paradox argument: Pascal versus radical postmodernism -- The radical postmodern challenge to Pascal's paradox argument -- Radical postmodernism's fourfold hermeneutics of unmasking -- Postmodernism as "hypermodernism
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index
ISBN:0801035996