Faith and Philosophy The Historical Impact

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Synopsis

This book examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present. Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated an essential transformation over time of the ancient notion of divine mind and of thought in general. Beginning with an examination of Aristotle’s notion of essence, Plato’s creation myth in the Timaeus, and Plotinus’ One, it is shown how faith in the hands of Augustine and Aquinas fundamentally reshaped Western thought and made possible in the modern period the radical subjectivity of Descartes brought to perfection by Kant and Hegel. The strenuous counter-thinking of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Levinas is closely compared to its disarming alternative, the thinking of Jefferson, Emerson, and C. S. Peirce, the father of American pragmatism.

Book details

Author:
D.G. Leahy
ISBN:
9781351937276
Related ISBNs:
9780754631200, 9781138435742, 9781315255514
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
194
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-12-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2003
Copyright by:
D. G. Leahy 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality