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To: Lorianne
.. we will see in the next chapter that “belief” can be epistemic, or simply procedural (pisteic) ..

Wow can't wait for that one.

Got a link, Lori? Checked pretentioustrash.com, couldn't find this article listed.

4 posted on 08/28/2016 4:03:38 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Hey! Be gentle with us philsophers! ;-)

The question a out religion, knowledge or faith, is actually kind of important. If you think as many Muslims do, that all you can know or need to know about righteousness is that Allah says it’s just — and he could say that about anything, then there’s very little possibility of common ground or even a reliable accommodation among different “persuasions.” (This wouod be the “faith” view.)

If, on the other hand you think that nearly everyone can work out basic principles of justice because of the common endowment of reason — even if revelation refines, guides, and, well, reveals thinks humans couldn’t work out on their own, then there are likely to be commonalities on which we can work out a modus vivendi. (This would be the epistemic or knowledge view.)

So it’s not all bibble-babble.


15 posted on 08/28/2016 8:30:04 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Sta, si cum canibus magnis currere non potes, in portico.)
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