Pillars of Unbelief, Part 1: Kant

CERC ^ | Peter Kreeft

[JMJ333]

I will say some extra prayers for her because she is going to need them. We all know how people who hold to the truth are treated. Her faith and confidence and filial piety will shine through, I have no doubt.

[PA Lurker]

JMJ333

God bless you my dear and know you are in our prayers over here.

PA Lurker

[Askel5]

I shall keep Jenifer and her friends in my prayers.

[Theresa]

From the essay: "as if faith and reason were enemies and not allies. In Kant, Luther's divorce between faith and reason becomes finalized."

Yep!

You said: Aristotelian/Thomist/Realist bump.

Dittos!

[LarryLied]

No one has a better understanding of Protestantism than Catholics. When a Protestant writer is too obscure for me, I always skitter away to a Catholic to explain what the point is.

[JMJ333]

Well, if anyone is obscure, it's Kant. Funny how garbage is sometimes held up as greatness.

[ArGee]

Nice post, JMJ333 Have a happy 4th!.

Yet this abstract professor, writing in abstract style about abstract questions, is, I believe, the primary source of the idea that today imperils faith (and thus souls) more than any other; the idea that truth is subjective.

If truth is subjective, then anything that depends upon truth is also subjective. Since meaning depends upon truth, meaning is subjective. But if meaning is subjective then the meaning of all the words I have herein written is subjective, which means that this post means whatever you think it means when you read it.

Don't flame me for whatever it is you think I have written.

Shalom.

[LarryLied]

Took a philosophy course at a professors house once. When I used the bathroom and saw a copy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason on the toilet in German I knew I was in trouble.

[JMJ333]

hehehe...No flames from me! Happy 4th to you also! =)

[tiki]

Thanks for that tidbit, I like to hear positive news. God bless her and her friends and family and keep her safe and sane and focused on Jesus.

[polemikos]

Enemies of the Faith - Pillars of Unbelief
Machiavelli, the inventor of "the new morality"
Kant, the subjectivizer of Truth
Nietzsche, the self-proclaimed Anti-Christ
Freud, the founder of the sexual revolution
Marx, the false Moses for the masses
Sartre, the apostle of absurdity

A 6-part series posted by JMJ333

[bzrd]

Jesus posited Himself, as THE Truth in John 14:6.

If Christ was just a man, then he uttered what has to be, the most profound [truth?] ever uttered by a man.

A less quoted, though equally profound and perhaps more infamous statement [query actually] was made by Pontious Pilate, in his historic confrontation with Christ...

"What is truth?"

If only he knew. If only he had come to the knowledge of the Truth, the saving knowledge of the Truth-as-person.

The Truth, in the person of Jesus Christ. The Truth that is not born out of the mind of man, but rather, in the heart.

It is only the knowldge of the Truth that will set you free. Give your heart to Jesus today.

Brian.