faith and reason

• fideism

  the belief that faith is the only source of knowledge and truth

  faith takes priority over reason, subjecting religious belief to rational analysis places reason above god

  • how do we decide which faith is best?
  • ration need not be damaging to faith
  • self defeating
• fideism is self defeating

  . If I claim that fideism is true, I must have a reason for doing so. However, if I give a justification, I am no longer a fideist.
• martin luther - philosophy is the devils whore
• tertullian - what has athens to do with jerusalem?

  the devils gateway
• kierkegaard - leap of faith
• barth - reason is of no value otherwise we wouldnt need faith and revelation
• rationalism

  uses reason and logic

  it is always wrong to believe something upon insufficient evidence - wk clifford
• hume and russell offered objections to arguments of god
• ayer and flew - problems of religious language
• freud and marx - psychological and sociological critiques
• aquinas - gods existence can be proved by reason
• rationalism weaknesses

  • no world view can satisy everyone
  • reason isn't neutral it's biased
  • we have stupid silly human minds not complex metaphysical ones
• faith comes first then reason - i believe in order that i may understand aquinas
• h.h price


  belief in vs belief that
• belief in - disinterested, good thing in it's own right, the fundamental good thing
• belief that - just an acceptance of a proposition