The Ethics of Belief (Illustrated)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B07322T86T |
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| Number of Pages | : | 187 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Clifford’s Ethics of Belief" according to Eduardo Chaves. A fantastic classic of epistemology (theory of rationality). Even though it is used mostly in Philosophy of Religion, it is applicable everywhere.. "Three essays by three different people." according to A Customer. This book contains three essays by three different people who do not all agree with each other, not simply the title essay by Clifford. All three essays are about whether or not we should believe things without evidence, or, in other words, whether or not we should have faith. All three. Great Stuff R. Kaye Interestingly, I found this by searching on "ethics + belief" out of pure curiosity. Boy did I get more than I expected. Here is an illuminating presentation of important philosophical issues regarding belief. Truly one of the most enlightening books I've read. The two classic essays ar
Both Clifford and James draw upon the established epistemic norms of philosophy, these being the principles which seekers of knowledge and truth should hold when acquiring a belief. Wishful thinking, supposition, assumptions, or blind faith are therefore unacceptable and can act to damage one’s intellect and ability to reason. William Kingdon Clifford's excellent treatise The Ethics of Belief is in this edition united with The Will to Believe; the spirited response by William James.This book brings together the two essays which comprise the famous philosophical exchange between the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford and William James, a psychologist and philosopher. Their exchange served to refine the norms in scholarly circles, ushering in a renewed and sustained interest in belief morality. That the issue of whether God exists is intellectually undecidable is central to Jame’s thesis: a person can, without impinging on their intellect or morals, choose to believe or not to believe in a deity. James then proceeds to outline a number of conditions which seek to justify the phenomena of religious belief as an intellectual and moral occurrence. The chief difference in opinion between Clifford and James, surrounds the matter of evidence. Clifford