Faith and Humility

Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289458-8 (ISBN)

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This book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand these two virtues in a way that does not discriminate between religious and secular. Jon Kvanvig claims that each provides a necessary, compensating balance to the potential downside of the other.

Faith and Humility is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand faith and humility in a way that does not discriminate between religious and mundane contexts, between sacred and secular. It arises from a conviction that these two character traits are important to a flourishing life, and intimately related to each other in such a way that the presence of one demands the presence of the other. In particular, the book defends the claim that each of these virtues provides a necessary, compensating balance to the potential downside of the other virtue. The result of such an inquiry, if that inquiry is successful, will require a re-orienting of discussions surrounding faith, including debates about the relationship between faith and reason.

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, previously Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, having held previous faculty positions at the University of Notre Dame, Texas A&M University, and the University of Missouri. His scholarly activities focus in metaphysics & epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and philosophy of religion, with more than 15 books and over 100 articles published.

Introduction
1: Faith Worth Having
2: Cognitive versus Functional Accounts
3: Non-Cognitive Accounts
4: Dewey, Epistemic Fetishism, and Classical Theism
5: Functional Faith in Religious Contexts
6: Faith, Humility, and Virtues in Isolation
7: Expressions of Humility and Epistemological Psychology
8: The Logical Space of Humility
9: Humility: Nature, Value, and Virtue
10: Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	338 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-19-289458-7 / 0192894587
ISBN-13	978-0-19-289458-8 / 9780192894588
Zustand	Neuware