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Author: Aristotelian Society
Page Count: 56 pages
Published Date: 05 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235039171
File size: 19 Mb
Download Link: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Volume 4)
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... V.--FAITH AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE. By L. T. Hobhouse. When a religious creed has lost its vital hold and nothing has come to take its place there are two makeshifts possible by which men seek to fill the void. One is to re-state the old belief in metaphysical terms, alleging truth of idea where it is no longer possible to plead truth of fact and using the ambiguities of abstract terms as a cover, behind which by moving rapidly from one meaning to another the direct conflict with brutal fact may be indefinitely evaded. The other is to seize hold of the very temper of mind which accompanies the decay of religion and make of it a means of evading sheer denial. For if an active and aggressive scepticism with its claim to judge all things by the test of reason in the name of truth is the cause of destruction to supernaturalism, the effect of that destruction is a scepticism of a different temper-- disappointed and disillusioned with a world emptied of its gods, in which the key to all the final problems is still to seek, disheartened with a victory which has possessed it of a bare and devastated land. In this mood scepticism is ready to be turned against itself, and there soon arise those who question reason much as reason questioned authority. Who, they ask, made science a ruler and judge over us? Science has her methods, to which she is welcome, but why should they be held superior to any others? Science, like theology, is human, the product of human thought, and, if we push it to the bottom, of human instincts. Her conclusions are not infallible, and her scope is not exhaustive. As to her first principles and fundamental assumptions, men have never yet come to an agreement about their nature, origin, and validity. The uniformity of nature which is assumed in all gener...
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Author: Aristotelian Society
Page Count: 56 pages
Published Date: 05 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235039171
File size: 19 Mb
Download Link: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Volume 4)
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... V.--FAITH AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE. By L. T. Hobhouse. When a religious creed has lost its vital hold and nothing has come to take its place there are two makeshifts possible by which men seek to fill the void. One is to re-state the old belief in metaphysical terms, alleging truth of idea where it is no longer possible to plead truth of fact and using the ambiguities of abstract terms as a cover, behind which by moving rapidly from one meaning to another the direct conflict with brutal fact may be indefinitely evaded. The other is to seize hold of the very temper of mind which accompanies the decay of religion and make of it a means of evading sheer denial. For if an active and aggressive scepticism with its claim to judge all things by the test of reason in the name of truth is the cause of destruction to supernaturalism, the effect of that destruction is a scepticism of a different temper-- disappointed and disillusioned with a world emptied of its gods, in which the key to all the final problems is still to seek, disheartened with a victory which has possessed it of a bare and devastated land. In this mood scepticism is ready to be turned against itself, and there soon arise those who question reason much as reason questioned authority. Who, they ask, made science a ruler and judge over us? Science has her methods, to which she is welcome, but why should they be held superior to any others? Science, like theology, is human, the product of human thought, and, if we push it to the bottom, of human instincts. Her conclusions are not infallible, and her scope is not exhaustive. As to her first principles and fundamental assumptions, men have never yet come to an agreement about their nature, origin, and validity. The uniformity of nature which is assumed in all gener...
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