Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Religion

Author: John Cottingham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1107019435

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In this book, abstract intellectual argument meets ordinary human experience on matters such as the existence of God and the relation between religion and morality.

Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith
Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith

Author: Paul Herrick

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2022-06-01

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0268202672

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This clear, readable introduction to philosophy presents a traditional theistic view of the existence of God. There are many fine introductions to philosophy, but few are written for students of faith by a teacher who is sensitive to the intellectual challenges they face studying in an environment that is often hostile to religious belief. Many introductory texts present short, easy-to-refute synopses of the traditional arguments for God’s existence, the soul, free will, and objective moral value rooted in God’s nature, usually followed by strong objections stated as if they are the last word. This formula may make philosophy easier to digest, but it gives many students the impression that there are no longer any good reasons to accept the beliefs just mentioned. Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith is written for philosophy instructors who want their students to take a deeper look at the classic theistic arguments and who believe that many traditional views can be rigorously defended against the strongest objections. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on philosophy of religion, an introduction to epistemology, philosophy of the human person, and philosophical ethics. The text challenges naturalism, the predominant outlook in the academic world today, while postmodernist relativism and skepticism are also examined and rejected. Students of faith—and students without faith—will deepen their worldviews by thoughtfully examining the philosophical arguments that are presented in this book. Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith will appeal to Christian teachers, analytic theists, home educators, and general readers interested in the classic arguments supporting a theistic worldview.

The Religious Aspect of Philosophy
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy

Author: Josiah Royce

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780282545604

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Excerpt from The Religious Aspect of Philosophy: A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and of Faith Also he has of course a decided debt to acknowl edge. There are in recent philosophical history two promising idealist, with his general and fruitful insistence upon the great fun damental truths of idealism; the other the technical Hegel of the Logik, whose dialectic method seems destined to remain, not a philosophy, but the idea of a philosophy. With this latter Hegel the author feels a great deal of discontent; to the other Hegel, whose insight, as we know, was by no means inde pendent of that of Fichte and other contemporaries. But who was certainly the most many-sided and crit ical of the leaders of the one great common idealistic movement of the early part of the century, to him we all owe a great debt indeed. It is, however, a mistake to neglect the other idealists just for the sake of glorifying him. And it is an intolerable blunder to go on repeating what we may have learned from him in the awkward and whimsical speech of the wondrous and crabbed master. If Hegel taught anything, then what he taught can be conveyed in an utterly non-hegelian vocabulary, or else Hegel is but a king of the rage and tatters of a flimsy terminology, and no king of thought at all. It is therefore absolutely the duty of a man who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.