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The logic of the heart : Augustine, Pascal, and the rationality of faith / James R. Peters.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2009.Description: 300 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780801035999 (pbk.)
  • 0801035996 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 231/.042 22
LOC classification:
  • BT771.3 .P48 2009
Contents:
Introduction. Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "Embeddedness" of Reason -- 1. Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the Postmodern World? -- Skeptics of Modernity: Embedded Rationality versus Rational Autonomy -- Embedded Reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic Apologists; Human Wisdom as Passionate Self-Knowledge -- Hume, Pascal, and the Humility of Reason -- 2. Hume's Skepticism and the Wisdom of the Heart -- Hume's Epistemological Refutation of Theism -- Three Answers from the Enquiry -- Hume's Attack on and Misunderstanding of Miracles -- Hume's Psychological Refutation of Theism -- Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal); Opposing Rationalities in Conflict -- 3. Pascal, Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Heart -- Pascal and the Rationality of Faith -- Pascal's Dialectical Defense of Faith -- Pascal's Teleological Apologetics -- Pascal: Faith Is Rational but Beyond Reason -- Pascal's Wager: Unmasking Skeptical Neutrality -- Pascal versus Fideism: Faith Is Not Contrary to Reason -- Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle: Conclusions -- 4. A Dialectical Defense of Pascal's Paradox Argument: Pascal versus Radical Postmodernism -- The Radical Postmodern Challenge to Pascal's Paradox Argument -- Radical Postmodernism's Fourfold Hermeneutics of Unmasking -- Postmodernism as "Hypermodernism"
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.

Introduction. Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "Embeddedness" of Reason -- 1. Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the Postmodern World? -- Skeptics of Modernity: Embedded Rationality versus Rational Autonomy -- Embedded Reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga -- Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic Apologists; Human Wisdom as Passionate Self-Knowledge -- Hume, Pascal, and the Humility of Reason -- 2. Hume's Skepticism and the Wisdom of the Heart -- Hume's Epistemological Refutation of Theism -- Three Answers from the Enquiry -- Hume's Attack on and Misunderstanding of Miracles -- Hume's Psychological Refutation of Theism -- Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal); Opposing Rationalities in Conflict -- 3. Pascal, Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Heart -- Pascal and the Rationality of Faith -- Pascal's Dialectical Defense of Faith -- Pascal's Teleological Apologetics -- Pascal: Faith Is Rational but Beyond Reason -- Pascal's Wager: Unmasking Skeptical Neutrality -- Pascal versus Fideism: Faith Is Not Contrary to Reason -- Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle: Conclusions -- 4. A Dialectical Defense of Pascal's Paradox Argument: Pascal versus Radical Postmodernism -- The Radical Postmodern Challenge to Pascal's Paradox Argument -- Radical Postmodernism's Fourfold Hermeneutics of Unmasking -- Postmodernism as "Hypermodernism"

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