God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781009203555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Roberto Di Ceglie

Opis

An investigation showing that commitments to God and/or the good generate the best possible condition to achieve knowledge.

Recenzje

'Roberto Di Ceglie's book shows that it is from commitment to God and the good that we expect the beneficial orientation of our intellectual life, whereas modern and contemporary epistemology has been conceived primarily in terms of justification and evidence. The spiritual turn proposed by Di Ceglie is anchored in the thought of Saint Thomas: our religious and moral commitments are so intellectually vital that they are constitutive of our rationality.' Roger Pouivet, Professor of Philosophy at Université de Lorraine

Spis treści

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.