Transcendence and Epistemology: Exploring Truth Via Post-Secular Christian Platonism
Where epistemology and transcendence are considered compatible, three approaches to truth are pursued. A Platonist approach sees true human knowledge as embedded in, and dependent on, transcendence; a neoplatonist Aristotelian approach remains Platonic in the above sense, and then sees ‘natural’ hum...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Modern theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-270 |
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| Summary: | Where epistemology and transcendence are considered compatible, three approaches to truth are pursued. A Platonist approach sees true human knowledge as embedded in, and dependent on, transcendence; a neoplatonist Aristotelian approach remains Platonic in the above sense, and then sees ‘natural’ human knowledge as providing valid grounds for limited speculative knowledge about divine truths; proto-modern Aristotelianism, however, approaches transcendence from an inherently naturalistic stance. This article endeavours to trace the collapse of metaphysical confidence inherent in the trajectory of modern epistemological foundationalism, through proto-modern Aristotelianism, and suggests that post-secular Christian Platonism can return a valid metaphysical confidence to us. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00444.x |
