The logic of the heart
Subtitle: Augustine, Pascal, and the rationality of faith
By: James R. Peters.
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780801035999
Subjects: Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo; Pascal, Blaise, -- 1623-1662; Hume, David, -- 1711-1776; Faith -- History of dotrines
Description: The Logic of the Heart sets forth a case for the rationality of the Christian faith. To accomplish his aim, philosopher James Peters analyzes the thought of Augustine and Blaise Pascal, and he employs the writings of skeptic David Hume as a backdrop to this analysis to show the importance of harmonizing the head and the heart in matters of faith. Peters ultimately finds the balance between the Enlightenment's overemphasis on human autonomy and reason alone and postmodernism's espousal of the creation of reality and interpretive freedom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume on the "embeddedness" of reason; title: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume for the postmodern world?; title: Skeptics of modernity: embedded rationality versus rational autonomy; title: Embedded reason in Augustine, Pascal, and Plantinga; title: Augustine, Pascal, and Hume as Socratic apologists: human wisdom as passionate self-knowledge; title: Hume, Pascal, and the humility of reason; title: Hume's skepticism and the wisdom of the heart; title: Hume's epistemological refutation of theism; title: Answers from the enquiry; title: Hume's attack on and misunderstanding of miracles; title: Hume's psychological refutation of theism; title: Hume versus Augustine (and Pascal): opposing rationalities in conflict; title: Pascal, paradox, and the wisdom of the heart; title: Pascal and the rationality of faith; title: Pascal's dialectical defense of faith; title: Pascal's teleological apologetics; title: Pascal: faith is rational but beyond reason; title: Pascal's wager: unmasking skeptical neutrality; title: Pascal versus fideism: faith is not contrary to reason; title: Pascal and Hume, Pascal and Aristotle; title: A dialectical defense of Pascal's paradox argument: Pascal versus radical postmodernism; title: The radical postmodern challenge to Pascal's paradox argument; title: Radical postmodernism's fourfold hermeneutics of unmasking; title: Postmodernism as "hypermodernism".