Newman's Illative Aesthetics: or, How to Philosophize with the "Grammar"

This essay offers an approach to Newman's Grammar of Assent through a twofold reading: of the language it deploys and the aesthetic standard which it raises. By inducing the very affects on which its epistemological claims depend, the Grammar's language enables its reader to vivify concept...

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Main Author: Tardif, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Notre Dame 2023
In: Religion & literature
Year: 2023, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-118
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Summary:This essay offers an approach to Newman's Grammar of Assent through a twofold reading: of the language it deploys and the aesthetic standard which it raises. By inducing the very affects on which its epistemological claims depend, the Grammar's language enables its reader to vivify concepts that would otherwise remain notional, cerebral, and inert. But in addition to justifying inferential (or illative) actions, Newman also aims to showcase exemplars of inference. Thus does the Grammar close with a consideration of the early Christian martyrs because these figures push the illative sense to its limit and, in so doing, illustrate this faculty's highest achievements.
ISSN:2328-6911
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion & literature