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Animal Kingdom
Aquinas epistemology
Author_Lydia Schumacher
Capital Vices
Cardinal Moral Virtues
Categorical Propositions
Categorical Syllogisms
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Concupiscible Passions
Conditioned Reactions
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expectant
Expectant Faith
faith
faith and knowledge
Faith's Rationality
Faith’s Rationality
False Humility
good
Good Life
herbert
highest
informed
Informed Faith
intellectual
Intellectual Appetite
Intellectual Vices
intellectual virtue theory
Intellectual Virtues
Irascible Passions
jean
Middle Term
moral reasoning ethics
Moral Virtue
Non-rational Beings
philosophy of religion
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rationality in Christian theology
Robert Miner
Soren Kierkegaard
Theological Philosophy
Vice Versa
Vicious Acts
virtue epistemology
virtues
Product details
- ISBN 9781472442659
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For much of the modern period, theologians and philosophers of religion have struggled with the problem of proving that it is rational to believe in God. Drawing on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, this book lays the foundation for an innovative effort to overturn the longstanding problem of proving faith's rationality, and to establish instead that rationality requires to be explained by appeals to faith. To this end, Schumacher advances the constructive argument that rationality is not only an epistemological question concerning the soundness of human thoughts, which she defines in terms of ’intellectual virtue’. Ultimately, it is an ethical question whether knowledge is used in ways that promote an individual's own flourishing and that of others. That is to say, rationality in its paradigmatic form is a matter of moral virtue, which should nonetheless entail intellectual virtue. This conclusion sets the stage for Schumacher's argument in a companion book, Theological Philosophy, which explains how Christian faith provides an exceptionally robust rationale for rationality, so construed, and is intrinsically rational in that sense.
Dr Lydia Schumacher is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity. Her previous books include Divine Illumination: The History and Future of Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge and the three-volume Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, for which she served as both co-editor and contributor.
