Philosophy and Religious Commitment
An aspect of the question of the relationship between reason and faith concerns the compatibility between philosophy and religious commitment. I begin by considering some attempts that have been made in both the analytic and Continental traditions to divorce philosophy from the life of religious fai...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
[2017]
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Sophia
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 605-630 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CA Christianity NBC Doctrine of God TK Recent history VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Ideology
B Christian Philosophy B problem of evil B Martin Heidegger B Bertrand Russell |
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| Summary: | An aspect of the question of the relationship between reason and faith concerns the compatibility between philosophy and religious commitment. I begin by considering some attempts that have been made in both the analytic and Continental traditions to divorce philosophy from the life of religious faith as far as possible: in particular, I discuss Martin Heidegger's critique of the very idea of a Christian philosophy' and Bertrand Russell's criticism of Aquinas for not living up to the Socratic ideal of following the argument wherever it leads. I then seek further to develop these criticisms by reviewing the current debate around the problem of evil in philosophy of religion as a case study of the dangers and drawbacks of religious commitment in philosophy. I conclude with some comments on the connection between ideology and philosophy, and claim that much of what passes as Christian philosophy is ideological as opposed to rational or truth-seeking in character. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Religious Commitment and the Benefits of Cognitive Diversity (2018)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-017-0575-z |