The logic of the heart : Augustine, Pascal, and the rationality of faith / James R. Peters.
Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2009.Description: 300 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0801035996 (pbk.)
- 9780801035999 (pbk.)
- 231.042 22 P442l
- BT 771.3 .P48 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index.
Introduction: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "embeddedness" of reason -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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