Reason, Revelation, and Devotion argues that immersion in religious reading traditions and their associated spiritual practices significantly shapes our emotions, desires, intuitions, and volitional commitments; these in turn affect our construction and assessments of arguments for religious conclusions. But far from distorting the reasoning process, these emotions and volitional and cognitive dispositions can be essential for sound reasoning on religious and other value-laden subject matters. And so western philosophy must rethink its traditional antagonism toward rhetoric. The book concludes with discussions of the implications of the earlier chapters for the relation between reason and revelation, and for the role that the concept of mystery should play in philosophy in general, and in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology in particular.



Zusammenfassung
The book presents a novel defense of the beneficial epistemic effect that extra logical features can have on the assessment of religious arguments.
Titel
Reason, Revelation, and Devotion
Untertitel
Inference and Argument in Religion
EAN
9781316484951
ISBN
978-1-316-48495-1
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
01.12.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
11.86 MB
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch