The wisdom to doubt : a justification of religious skepticism / / J.L. Schellenberg
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| Autore: |
Schellenberg J. L. <1959->
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| Titolo: |
The wisdom to doubt : a justification of religious skepticism / / J.L. Schellenberg
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 211/.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Religion - Philosophy |
| Belief and doubt | |
| Skepticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Finitude and the future: seven modes of religious skepticism -- pt. 2. Cradles of conviction: the modes applied and fortified -- pt. 3. God and the gaps: the modes illustrated and vindicated. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Wisdom to Doubt is a major contribution to the contemporary literature on the epistemology of religious belief. Continuing the inquiry begun in his previous book, Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, J. L. Schellenberg here argues that given our limitations and especially our immaturity as a species, there is no reasonable choice but to withhold judgment about the existence of an ultimate salvific reality. Schellenberg defends this conclusion against arguments from religious experience and naturalistic arguments that might seem to make either religious belief or religious disbelief preferable to his skeptical stance. In so doing, he canvasses virtually all of the important recent work on the epistemology of religion. Of particular interest is his call for at least skepticism about theism, the most common religious claim among philosophers.The Wisdom to Doubt expands the author's well-known hiddenness argument against theism and situates it within a larger atheistic argument, itself made to serve the purposes of his broader skeptical case. That case need not, on Schellenberg's view, lead to a dead end but rather functions as a gateway to important new insights about intellectual tasks and religious possibilities. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The wisdom to doubt |
| ISBN: | 0-8014-6513-3 |
| 0-8014-7851-0 | |
| 0-8014-6239-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814042403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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