... the Christian lived his life. Hume’s contribution was to explore the limitations of human reason in ways that made both sides of this conflict feel uneasy. The chapter concludes with an account of the ‘common sense’ reply to Hume’s writings on religion, as developed in Aberdeen by George Campbell, Gerard...

... to the interactive, decentralized computers of today. At stake in these differences are competing visions of the character of human reason, particularly the problem of relating means to ends. Are computers strictly a means to an end, or can they be an end in themselves, for example, a form of play? The chapter shows...

... the conviction that God's Creation is orderly and in conformity with natural laws accessible to human reason. asteroid 9936 Al Biruni Biruni Abū al Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al Bīrūnī Alberonius Ghazni Afghanistan Hamadan Iran Ibn Sina Abū ʿAlī al Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbdallāh Ibn Sīna Avicenna Khayyam Omar Qābūs...

... and empiricist philosophies which sought to base human knowledge and the conduct of human affairs on the unaided efforts of human reason. The Deists, in particular, pointed to the existence of inconsistencies and contradictions within the Bible. Out of this emerged a rich tradition of critical scholarship which...

...This chapter examines Hayek's claims about the nature and significance of the limits of human reason. It outlines Hayek's account of the nature of mind and knowledge and his critique of ‘constructivism’. It also examines the relationship between his attack on constructivism and his theory...

... the sullied name of human reason have been philosophers, and their weapons have been conceptual analysis and epistemological argument. The central thrust of their defense is the claim that empirical evidence could not possibly support the conclusion that people are systematically irrational. And thus...

... not part of revelation, and were universally intelligible through human reason. In fact, revelation is inferior to reason because the latter is immediately and publicly available to all and the former is a snapshot in time, restricted, non-universal. Consequently, Noahide law, which is universal...

...This chapter explores Maimonides' rationalism. It shows that Maimonides did not view human reason as all-powerful. Human reason, in his judgement, is capable of acquiring broad scientific knowledge of the sublunar world and a lesser level of knowledge concerning the celestial region. Maimonides...

... conditions, the limits of reason affirmatively support a larger role for lawmaking by legislatures and executive officials than is allowed under epistemic legalism—emphatically including constitutional lawmaking. Precisely because of the limits of human reason, large modern legislatures, with their numerous...

... mystery in the Scripture but suggested that those holy mysteries are not comprehensible by human reason because they are works of faith and not by human ratiocination. Beza also denies that a belief system can be considered Christian if its doctrines can be comprehended by pure reason. The era...

...This book is concerned with Kierkegaard's ‘apophaticism’, i.e. with those elements of Kierkegaard's thought that emphasize the incapacity of human reason and the hiddenness of God. Apophaticism is an important underlying strand in Kierkegaard's thought and colours many of his key concepts. Despite...

...Aquinas believed that human reason, unaided by revelation, not only tells us things about the natural world, but can provide an austere account of the existence of God. He also held that reason plays a vital role within theology. Indeed, it must have a role to play if sacra doctrina...

... the French from the results of their disastrous experiments in revolutionary politics, the rise of historical consciousness, and the widespread desire to understand a spiritualized version of human reason. 1 For this account of Tocqueville's own statement of his allegiances, see the unpublished...

... background Kantian ideas about our power of reason, including the idea of human reason. reason rationality autonomy interests of reason reasons Immanuel Kant Kantian ethics Categorical Imperative human reason Common sense and ordinary language suggest that our reason is an embodied mental power...

... mysteries central to Christian thought, the Trinity and the Incarnation. From this study emerges a portrait of a thinker surprisingly receptive to traditional Christian theology and profoundly committed to defending the legitimacy of truths beyond the full grasp of human reason. This view of Leibniz differs...

... about the relationship between human racial diversity, on the one hand, and the universality of human reason, on the other. Finally, the chapter argues that the position occupied by Amo in the philosophical landscape of early eighteenth-century Germany reveals the likely influence of Leibniz, who had...

... of the creative imagination is to be creative in expanding the arts and literature, technology, economy, politics, and culture. The only wise way of exercising the creative imagination is under the guidance and illumination of human reason. Plato Eternal Poetry Sense Aristotle Form Freedom Augustine...

... gesture both shows and tells, a performance which is not merely about something but is that something itself. In short, a matter of rhetoric when it works, a challenge that Immanuel Kant took more seriously than most. In Kant's own words, “human reason is by nature architectonic.” It is this mode...

... social standing to reflect his ability to handle contradiction, the new philosophers saw paradox as the worst enemy of human reason. Oedipus Rex tells about Oedipus, King of Thebes who has been defeated by his own means. The theory of proper names and definite descriptions...

...This chapter examines the Essais of Michel de Montaigne, particularly the Apologie de Raimond Sebond, a piece that reflects on the frailty of human reason through determining whether swallows surpass humans in their sense of space and place. When Montaigne looks...