Category: Fideism
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Pascal, Buber, and the God of the Philosophers
Substack latest. It is a mistake to oppose the God of the philosophers to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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The Infirmity of Reason versus the Certitude of Faith
Reason is infirm in that it cannot establish anything definitively as regards the ultimate questions that most concern us. It cannot even prove that doubting is the way to truth, "that it is certain that we ought to be in doubt." (Pyrrho entry, Bayle's Dictionary, tr. Popkin, p. 205) But, pace Pierre Bayle, the merely subjective certitude…
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The Question of the Reality of God: Wittgensteinian Fideism No Answer
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An Easter Sunday Meditation: Wittgenstein Contra St. Paul
1 Corinthians 15:14: "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." (KJV) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, U. of Chicago Press, 1980, tr. Peter Winch, p. 32e, entry from 1937: Queer as it sounds: The historical accounts in the Gospels might, historically speaking, be demonstrably false…
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The Question of the Reality of God: Wittgensteinian Fideism No Answer
Taking a Wittgensteinian line, D. Z. Phillips construes the question of the reality of God as like the question of the reality of physical objects in general, and unlike the question of the reality of any particular physical object such as a unicorn. Phillips would therefore have a bone to pick with Edward 'Cactus Ed' Abbey…