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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Grand Rapids, Mich.
Baker Academic
c 2009
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index |
| Physical Description: | 300 S., 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8010-3599-9 0-8010-3599-6 |
