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The Wisdom To Doubt
Phụ đề: A Justification of Religious Skepticism
Tác giả: J. L. Schellenberg
Ký hiệu tác giả: SC-J
DDC: 210 - Triết học tôn giáo
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

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Mã số: 258SB0016754
Nhà xuất bản: Cornell University Press
Năm xuất bản: 2007
Khổ sách: 22
Số trang: 326
Kho sách: Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng: Hiện có
Preface: An Uncertain Heritage           xi
Introduction               1
PART I. FINITUDE AND THE FUTURE: SEVEN MODES OF RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM 11
1. The Subject Mode             15
1. Overlooked Evidence              18
2. Neglected Evidence             20
3. Inaccessible Evidence              21
4. Undiscovered Evidence             23
5. Undiscoverable Evidence             24
6. Unrecognized Defeat: A Strategy of Assessment        27
7. Additional Support for the Strategy           39
8. Application of the Strategy to Religious Inquiry          42
9. Is the Subject Mode Self-Defeating?           47
2. The Object Mode             50
1. The Ultimate: Knowable or Unknowable?         51
2. Religious Conceptions of the Ultimate: Adequate or Inadequate?     56
3. Ultimism: Coherent or Incoherent?           64
3. The Retrospective Mode             69
1. General Preliminaries             70
2. The Heart of the Matter: How Religious Investigation Has Suffered     71
3. The Skeptical Fallout             86
4. The Prospective Mode             91
1. Why the Future Matters Now           93
2. How the Evidence May Change           97
3. Does the Prospective Mode Underwrite Irresponsible Generalization?   105
5. The Modes Combined: Limitation, Immaturity, Presumption     108
1. Combinatorial Reasoning             109
2. The Limitation Mode             112
3. The Immaturity Mode             113
4. The Presumption Mode             115
6. The Bearing of Pragmatic Considerations         118
1. The Benefits of Belief             119
2. The Benefits of Disbelief             124
3. Passive or Active Skepticism?           128
PART II. CRADLES OF CONVICTION: THE MODES APPLIED AND FORTIFIED 131
7. An Answer to Naturalism             133
1. The Nature of Naturalism 2. Arguments for Naturalism       133
3. A More Plausible Naturalism?           136
4. Conclusions               151
8. The Questionableness of Religious Experience         157
1. First-Person Justification: Variations on the Theme       160
2. Innocent until Proven Guilty?           162
3. The Problem of Religious Diversity Revisited         169
4. The Problem of Natural Explanation Introduced         175
5. Final Thoughts               184
PART III. GOD AND THE GAPS: THE MODES ILLUSTRATED AND VINDICATED 189
9. Hiddenness Arguments I             191
1. Parameters of the Discussion           195
2. God, Creation, and Divine-Creature Relationship       198
3. Objections to the Hiddenness Argument         206
4. The Free-Will Defense against the Problem of Hiddenness       218
10. Hiddenness Arguments II             227
1. Former Believers             228
2. Lifelong Seekers               233
3. Converts to Nontheistic Religion           236
4. Isolated Nontheists             238
5. Conclusion               242
11. The Argument from Horrors           243
1. Developing the Argument             243
2. An Objection to the Argument           254
3. More Objections: The Free-Will Theodicy         256
4. More Objections: The Free-Will Defense         261
12. The Free-Will Offense             270
1. A World without Free Will             271
2. A World without the Free-Will Defense          282
3. The Problems of Free Will             285
4. This Chapter and Previous Arguments         288
13. Consolidating Forces: The Arguments Combined       291
1. The Consolidated Hiddenness Argument         292
2. The Consolidated Argument from Horrors and Free Will       294
3. The Consolidated Argument from Hiddenness, Horrors, and Free Will   295
14. Closing the Case: Seven Proofs and a Skeptical Conclusion     297
1. The Force of the Proofs: An Opening Worry         297
2. The Force of the Proofs: Skeptical Theism         299
3. The Force of the Proofs: Other Theists         304
4. God and the Gaps             306
Epilogue                 310
Appendix A. Definitions             313
Appendix B. Principles             317
Index                 321
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