God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology

AvRoberto Di Ceglie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In this book, Roberto Di Ceglie offers an historical, theological, and epistemological investigation exploring how commitments to God and/or the good generate the optimum condition to achieve knowledge. Di Ceglie criticizes the common belief that to attain knowledge, one must always be ready to replace one's convictions with beliefs that appear to be proven. He defends a more comprehensive view, historically exemplified by outstanding Christian thinkers, whereby believers are expected to commit themselves to God and to related beliefs no matter how convincing the evidence contradicting such beliefs appears to be. He also argues that both believers and unbelievers can commit themselves to God and the good, respectively, thereby creating a spiritual turn in epistemology that enables them to generate the best possible condition for conducting rational enquiries and discussion.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-18
Mått:158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009203555

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

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Roberto Di Ceglie is full professor in the Department of Philosophy of the Pontifical Lateran University. The author of Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (Routledge, 2022), he has published in journals such as Philosophy, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Sophia, and Philosophia.

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'In this fine study, Professor Di Ceglie offers a robust defence of a position that challenges some key modernist assumptions. His central claim is that our moral and spiritual commitments should dispose us to maintain the core beliefs that sustain these, even when faced by apparently strong counter-evidence. By applying insights from Aquinas to contemporary debates, he has provided us with an informed and measured treatment of the subject.' David Fergusson, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Towards the Overcoming of the Lockean View of Faith and Reason: 1. Reformed epistemologists and John Henry Newman as critics of Locke's view of faith and reason; 2. Thomas Reid: philosophy, science, and the Christian revelation; Part II. The Christian Faith As Part of Both the Problem of Inconclusiveness and its Solution: 3. Thomas Aquinas: primacy of faith and autonomy of reason; 4. Rethinking the nature and purpose of debates. Mitchell, practical rationality, religious disagreement, a-rational commitments, and 'quasi-fideism'; Part III. The Spiritual Turn: Why and How to Take it: 5. The spiritual turn: process and some benefits (divine hiddenness, no-fault unbelief, and religious diversity); 6. Comparison with virtue epistemology and reinforcement: more reasons for believers and unbelievers to take the spiritual turn.