RT Article
T1 Philosophy and Religious Commitment
JF Sophia
VO 56
IS 4
SP 605
OP 630
A1 Trakakis, Nick 1972-
A2 Lougheed, Kirk
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/156931456X
AB 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.
K1 Bertrand Russell
K1 Christian Philosophy
K1 Ideology
K1 Martin Heidegger
K1 problem of evil
DO 10.1007/s11841-017-0575-z