FIDEISM AND TRANSCENDENCE
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https://doi.org/10.26512/2358-82842019e25187Keywords:
Faith and rationality, absolute presuppositions, meaning, religious ambiguity.Abstract
This paper critically explores the identification between faith and the basic trust proper of absolute presuppositions. This identification is a result of the fideistic reading of contemporary criticism to rationality, according to which it has a historically situated and finite character. The first section explores this fideistic reading. The second attempts to differentiate religious faith from the trust we have in what we take for granted. In the final part, it is argued that faith makes it possible a form of evaluation of our basic commitment with absolute presuppositions, which has nothing to do with justification. This evaluation is rather a way of confronting the trust proper of presuppositions.
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