Intellectual, Humanist and Religious Commitment
Acts of Assent
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2019
224 pages
978-1-350-09773-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-350-09773-5 (9781350097735)
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Book
06/2021
Bloomsbury Academic
€59.60
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Person
Peter Forrest is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at University of New England, Australia.
Content
1. Introduction
2. Between Innocence and Commitment: Speculation and Experience
3. Reasonable Commitment
4. Some Comparisons
5 Commitment to Reason and to Scientific Realism
6. Humanist Commitment
7. Humanism and the Cosmic Agent
8. Commitment to God
9. Corollaries
Bibliography
Index
2. Between Innocence and Commitment: Speculation and Experience
3. Reasonable Commitment
4. Some Comparisons
5 Commitment to Reason and to Scientific Realism
6. Humanist Commitment
7. Humanism and the Cosmic Agent
8. Commitment to God
9. Corollaries
Bibliography
Index
