Philosophy 53 Flashcards
Describe the double-truth universe.
Reason and faith pertained to different realms. And there seemed to be no genuine integration between scientific and religious reality
What terrified Pascal? Why?
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces,” the void of the universe and its unending expansiveness
What happened to the miraculous? Why?
Could no longer command unquestioning belief because mechanic materialism had improved the modern mind’s explanatory power
How was the Bible now recognized?
A heterogeneous collection of writings in various literary genres, editorially modified by many human hands over the centuries
What did the Judaeo-Christian God seem to be?
A peculiarly double combination of wish-fulfillment fantasy and anthropomorphic projection
Christians seemed best understood as what?
Well-meaning but credulous
What is meant by the “leap of faith?”
Constituted the principal basis for religious conviction
