This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwise incomprehensible relationship with reason. The first part of the book examines various modern and contemporary accounts of the relationship between faith and reason in Aquinas’s thought. The author shows that these accounts are unconvincing because they exhibit what he calls a Lockean view of faith and reason, which maintains that the relationship between faith and reason should be treated only by way of evidence. In other words, the Lockean view ignores the specific nature of the Christian faith and the equally specific way it needs to relate to reason. The second part offers a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s view of faith. It focuses on the way the divine grace and charity shape the relationship between evidence and human will. The final part of the book ties these ideas together to show how Christian faith, with its specifically theological nature, is perfectly compatible with rational debate. It also argues that employing the specificity of faith may constitute the best way to promote autonomous and successful rational investigations. Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Aquinas, philosophy of religion, Christian theology, and medieval philosophy.
This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwise incomprehensible relationship with reason. The first part of the book examines various modern and contemporary accounts of the relationship between faith and reason in Aquinas’s thought. The author shows that these accounts are unconvincing because they exhibit what he calls a Lockean view of faith and reason, which maintains that the relationship between faith and reason should be treated only by way of evidence. In other words, the Lockean view ignores the specific nature of the Christian faith and the equally specific way it needs to relate to reason. The second part offers a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s view of faith. It focuses on the way the divine grace and charity shape the relationship between evidence and human will. The final part of the book ties these ideas together to show how Christian faith, with its specifically theological nature, is perfectly compatible with rational debate. It also argues that employing the specificity of faith may constitute the best way to promote autonomous and successful rational investigations. Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Aquinas, philosophy of religion, Christian theology, and medieval philosophy.
In this book, Roberto Di Ceglie offers an historical, theological, and epistemological investigation exploring how commitments to God and/or the good generate the optimum condition to achieve knowledge. Di Ceglie criticizes the common belief that to attain knowledge, one must always be ready to replace one's convictions with beliefs that appear to be proven. He defends a more comprehensive view, historically exemplified by outstanding Christian thinkers, whereby believers are expected to commit themselves to God and to related beliefs no matter how convincing the evidence contradicting such beliefs appears to be. He also argues that both believers and unbelievers can commit themselves to God and the good, respectively, thereby creating a spiritual turn in epistemology that enables them to generate the best possible condition for conducting rational enquiries and discussion.
Michele Emiliano protagonista, a Bari e in Puglia, d'una esperienza politica e amministrativa particolarmente interessante e innovativa nella realt politica italiana. Ecco i come e i perch raccontati da osservatori e protagonisti: Ludovico Abaticchio, Dino Amenduni, Nino Anaclerio, Pierluigi Balducci, Lino Banfi, Rosina Basso Lobello, Paolo Bevilacqua, Tobia Binetti, Nicola Bonerba, Dino Borri, Marco Brando, Carlo Bruni, Danilo Calabrese, Giovanni Campobasso, Antonio Cantoro, Cinzia Capano, Michele Capriati, Donato Carrisi, Franco Cassano, Domenico Castellaneta, Angelo Cera, Franco Chiarello, Graziano Conversano, Raimondo Cucciola, Nicola De Bartolomeo, Antonio De Caro, Fortunata Dell'Orzo, Cinzia De Marzo, Fabio Di Fonte, Antonio Di Matteo, Gemma Dipoppa, Simonetta Emiliano, Francesco Ferrante, Francesco Fistetti, Enrico Fornaro, Costantino Foschini, Dario Ginefra, Mario Gismondi, Giuseppe Goffredo, Gero Grassi, Eugenio Iorio, Marco Lacarra, Vito Leccese, Francesco Lenoci, Adriana Logroscino, Fabrizio Lombardo Pijola, Antonio Madaro, Enzo Magist, Alfredo Mantovano, Biagio Marzo, Augusto Masiello, Maria Maugeri, Michele Mazzarano, Susi Mazzei, Domenico Mennitti, Nichi Muciaccia, Gennaro Nunziante, Rocco Palese, Carlo Paolini, Vittorio Parisi, Federico Pirro, Adriana Poli Bortone Massimo Posca, Franco Punzi, Enzo Purgatorio, Luigi Quaranta, Antonella Rinella, Elio Sannicandro, Maria Santacroce, Alba Sasso, Giovanni Sasso, Leonardo Scorza, Vittorio Sgarbi, Ippazio Stef no, Salvatore Tatarella, Leonardo Tomasicchio, Andrea Troisi, Walter Veltroni, Nichi Vendola, Marcello Vernola, Cesare Veronico, Fabrizio Versienti, Gianfranco Viesti, Luciano Violante, Pierfelice Zazzera.Michele Emiliano is the protagonist, in Bari and in Puglia, of a political and administrative experience particularly interesting and innovative in the reality of Italian politics.
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