Since I’m doing a lot of reading this term, I’ll probably be throwing out more quotes and less original writing. Here’s a bit about reason and power, with interesting connections to politics! Kant spoke of “pure” reason and the “autonomy” of reason. But that is a dangerous abstraction, for reason is always already embedded in system […]
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Many people pose faith and reason as opposites. You can have one or the other, but not both. They think like this: faith is non-rational and sets limits on the terrain that reason can explore, stifling it. Reason, on the other hand, promotes a blanket skepticism that is inherently hostile to (unthinking) faith. I think that […]
From Pope John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio, § 31-32: …there are in the life of a human being many more truths which are simply believed than truths which are acquired by way of personal verification. Who, for instance, could assess critically the countless scientific findings upon which modern life is based? Who could personally examine […]
So, if you haven’t gathered by my recent quotes and by the books in my sidebar, I’m heavily researching the integration of faith and learning. Since end-of-term crunch time does not leave me much time for posting, I will instead subject you all to quotes I find interesting. The following quote is from Arthur F. […]
Or at least, so says Charles Habib Malik in his “A Christian Critique of the University.” He says: There is the tremendous problem of whether there is essential incompatibility between reason and faith, between knowledge and virtue, between scholarship and the sense of mystery. On the face of it there seems to be such incompatibility. Can […]
10 myths — and 10 truths — about atheism - Los Angeles Times This article is written by Sam Harris, a fairly fundamentalist atheist in the ilk of Richard Dawkins. I first heard about him in a Wired article that describes how Atheism has fallen on pretty hard times as of late, and personalities like Dawkins and Harris are trying […]
