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Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims Objectivity

August 29, 2009 – 9:13 pm

In a previous post, I wrote the following of Rod Dreher’s decision to inculcate in his children a faithfulness that would safeguard their faith against intellectual faltering: I can say that it is utterly depressing you could be so self aware about inculcating your children to believe regardless of truth or falsity, to put faithfulness […]

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Disambiguating Faith: Faith As A Form Of Rationalization Unique To Religion

August 29, 2009 – 4:10 pm

Rod Dreher confronts psychological research which illustrates the pervasive role of rationalization in our thought processes, which leads us reflexively to seek out information that confirms preexisting beliefs rather than challenges them among other techniques for seeing only what we want to see. Turning to the implications of the realities of rationalization for the religious […]

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Rough Sketches of Nietzsche’s Politics and Philosophy of Religion

May 12, 2008 – 11:07 pm

What follows are a couple of replies to questions sent to me by a student this semester about Nietzsche’s views on politics and religion. While not definitive or thoroughly sourced discussions of Nietzsche’s thoughts on politics and religion, I think the sketches of Nietzsche’s positions as I formulated them in these replies have some promise. […]

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Category Archives: Spinoza

Disambiguating Faith: Faith As Subjectivity Which Claims Objectivity

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Disambiguating Faith: Faith As A Form Of Rationalization Unique To Religion

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Rough Sketches of Nietzsche’s Politics and Philosophy of Religion

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