Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment - Professor Peter Forrest

Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment

Acts of Assent
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2019
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-09771-1 (ISBN)
137,15 inkl. MwSt
This book offers a rigorous analysis of why commitment matters and the challenges it presents to a range of believers.

Peter Forrest treats commitment as a response to lost innocence. He considers the intellectual consequences of this by demonstrating why, for example, we should not believe in angels. He then explores why humans are attached to reason and to humanism, recognising the different commitments made by theist and non-theist humanists. Finally, he analyses religious faith, specifically fideism, defining it by way of contrast to Descartes, Pascal and William James, as well as contemporary philosophers including John Schellenberg and Lara Buchak.

Of particular interest to scholars working on the philosophy of religion, the book makes the case both for and against committing to God, recognising that God’s divine character sets up an emotional rather than an intellectual barrier to commitment to worship.

Peter Forrest is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at University of New England, Australia.

1. Introduction
2. Between Innocence and Commitment: Speculation and Experience
3. Reasonable Commitment
4. Some Comparisons
5 Commitment to Reason and to Scientific Realism
6. Humanist Commitment
7. Humanism and the Cosmic Agent
8. Commitment to God
9. Corollaries
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 488 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-350-09771-3 / 1350097713
ISBN-13 978-1-350-09771-1 / 9781350097711
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