Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment
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Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment

Acts of Assent

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Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment

Acts of Assent

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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.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2019
ISBN
9781350097728
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1: Introduction
  7. Chapter 2: Between Innocence and Commitment: Speculation and Experience
  8. Chapter 3: Reasonable Commitment
  9. Chapter 4: Some Comparisons
  10. Chapter 5: Commitment to Reason and to Scientific Realism
  11. Chapter 6: Humanist Commitment
  12. Chapter 7: Humanism and the Cosmic Agent
  13. Chapter 8: Commitment to God
  14. Chapter 9: Corollaries
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index