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9780813213644 Academic Inspection Copy

Communities of Informed Judgement

Newman's Illative Sense and Accounts of Rationality
  • ISBN-13: 9780813213644
  • Publisher: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERISTY OF AMERICA PRESS
    Imprint: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS
  • Other Frederick D. Aquino
  • Price: AUD $157.00
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  • Local release date: 29/06/2004
  • Format: Hardback (210.00mm X 150.00mm) 30 pages Weight: 700g
  • Categories: Christian theology [HRCM]
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Is Christian belief rationally acceptable? Must every Christian defend his or her beliefs with exhaustively logical arguments, or is belief solely a matter of faith rather than logical argument? In Communities of Informed Judgment, Frederick D. Aquino offers an alternative route, showing how John Henry Newman's notion of the illative sense of reasoning paves a way for constructing a fresh account of the rationality of Christian belief. Moving beyond both modern and postmodern accounts of rationality, Aquino constructs a proposal of informed judgment, blending Newman's notion of the illative sense of reasoning with recent work in social and virtue epistemology. The first part of the book focuses primarily on Newman's treatment of the illative sense in the Grammar of Assent, with the University Sermons as a backdrop. The second part addresses the problem of securing a common standard of justification. Though Newman acknowledges the social and communal facets of judgment, his focus is primarily on the personal dimension. Aquino develops Newman's insights into a social epistemology of informed judgment, transposing the problem of common measure into a problem of trusting the illative sense as a reliable belief-forming process in communities of informed judgment. An original contribution to Newman studies, the book has an interdisciplinary focus, drawing from recent work in social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and cognitive science. It also takes up issues relevant to the philosophy of religion, epistemology of religious belief, systematic theology, ecumenical dialogue, and studies in John Henry Newman.
"Aquino has done justice to the complexity of Newman's thought and demonstrated its continuing relevance for theology, epistemology, and ethics.... By augmenting and challenging Newman's insights with the results of contemporary research, Aquino opens up new perspectives for both Newman studies and theological epistemology."
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