Wagering on an Ironic God: Pascal on Faith and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781481306386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

Thomas S. Hibbs

Opis

Pascal thus wagers all on the irony of a God who both startles and astonishes wisdom's true lovers.--J. Columcille Dever "Modern Theology"

Spis treści

• Part One. Irony, Philosophy, and the Christian Faith
• Section 1. Pascal and the Ancient Quarrel over the Best Way of Life
• Section 2. Irony Rehabilitated
• Section 3. The Figure of Socrates in Early Modern Philosophy: Montaigne, Descartes, and Pascal
• Section 4. Divine Irony as an Alternative to Deism and Voluntarism
• Part Two. Socratic Immanence: Montaigne's Recovery of Philosophy as a Way of Life
• Section 1. Socratic Self-Knowledge
• and the Art of Living
• Section 2. Against Speculative Philosophy
• Section 3. Montaigne's Confessions
• Section 4. Death, Diversion, and the Supernatural
• Part Three. The Virtue of Science and the Science of Virtue: Descartes' Overcoming of Socrates
• Section 1. The Arts of Writing and the Science of Living
• Section 2. Recovering and Overcoming Socrates
• Section 3. Descartes' New Science of Virtue
• Section 4. Theology, Philosophical Irony, and the Arts of (Re-)Writing
• Part Four. The Quest for Wisdom: Pascal and Philosophy
• Section 1. Socrates and the Quest for the Good Life
• Section 2. Ironic Reversal: The Reduction of Cartesian Certitude to Socratic Amazement
• Section 3. Philosophy Deconstructed? Pascal Deconstructed?
• Section 4. The Restless Heart: Pascal's Residual Teleology
• Section 5. Pascal's Methods and the Quest for a Synoptic Vision
• Part Five. Wagering on an Ironic God
• Section 1. Rereading the Wager
• Section 2. Wagering as Self-Emptying
• Section 3. The Problem of Hope
• Section 4. Neither Deism nor Voluntarism
• Section 5. Christ as Eucharistic Cipher