Flannery O'Connor and religious epistemology
What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extra...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2020, Band: 56, Heft: 3, Seiten: 349-369 |
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O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964
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/ Epistemische Logik
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RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus NCA Ethik |
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Zusammenfassung: | What are the demands of religious inquiry? It can be tempting to think of these demands in strictly epistemic terms, e.g. as a function of the inquirer's background beliefs, cognitive faculties, natural cognitive ability, intellectual skills, and intellectual character. In this article, I extrapolate an alternative model of religious inquiry from three stories by the Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). According to the model, a person's fitness for religious inquiry also depends on whether she possesses a certain moral posture. In particular, I argue that something like moral humility functions as an epistemic virtue in the theistic domain. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000562 |