The Volitional Element in Knowledge and Belief: And Other Essays in Philosophy and Religion (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Grover, Delo Corydon

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ISBN 10: 1331505712 ISBN 13: 9781331505716

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This does not mean however that Christianity is to dispense with thinking to make clear, first of all, the presuppositions of the Christian sys tem. Dean Grover has done well to point out the fact that all thinking, of whatever sort, pro ceeds upon assumption. Assumption is inevi table, but we must know when we are assuming and when we are reasoning upon what has been assumed. Works like this volume of essays have large value in that they train the mind to see just what assumption is necessary and then to guard the mind against thinking that assumption is reasoning or that reasoning can take the place of or do Without assumption. The one difficulty with present day Pragmatism is that in the hands of many disciples it results in general looseness of intellectual procedure. The lead ers of the pragmatic movement have of course not intended this result. The will to believe is all-essential but the will must be an enlightened one, making its choices rationally and reasoning about them in a logical manner.

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This volume of essays is in general in line with the philosophic principles of the late Dr. Borden P. Bowne. The very title of the essay which gives the book its name, "The Volitional Element in Knowledge and Belief," would indicate kinship with the Bowne philosophy. Dr. Bowne possessed in a singular degree the power of rousing his followers to think on their own account and to carry out his principles in applying his implications in fields beyond the strictly philosophical. He used to feel that his philosophy had significance for all departments of Christian thinking and practice. If he had lived he would have been glad to see the use which Dean Grover has made of one of his fundamental conceptions, namely, the significance of will for Christian belief.

We are coming to see in these latter days that the Christian system does not depend for its chief basis upon formal argument. This does not mean that the formal arguments for Christianity are not better than the formal arguments against Christianity. Christianity is not to be overthrown by argument. On the other hand, however, it is not to find its firmest foundation in argument. Strict argument leaves us many times with a drawn battle.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331505712
• ISBN 13: 9781331505716
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190