relationship between reason + faith

Question 1

what is REASON ?

Answer 1

rational part of mind : use of logic + establishment of fact + reaching conclusions

Question 2

what is FAITH ?

Answer 2

having trust + belief in something + someone

Question 3

1. some argue belief in God = unreasonable

why ? (4)

Answer 3

• abt a being who cannot be investigated via science
• same ppl, adopt view that truth = what we see via science + sense // therefore when ppl talk abt God, talkin abt being who can’t be seen , known this way smh
• belief in intelligent designer = hypothesis / / evidence : creations such as conscious beings like homo sapien
• it’s a rational pov . : may / may not be true / / neither irrational or unscientific

Question 4

2. some , faith = only thing that gives us certainty ( fideism)

Answer 4

• faith > reason
• faith : abt passionate commitment + ppl are fully justified in belief of summat 2 be true via own experience
• people can believe in God w passionate conviction yet the CERTAINTY = never experienced via reason
• approach CAN be questioned : some argue that their faith = justification for torture of other’s (extremists) // v irrational

Question 5

4.( HH PRICE ) / / Middle ground between faith + reason = ‘ i believe IN God ‘ + ‘ I believe THAT God…’

Answer 5

• HH PRICE : phat difference between ‘ i believe in God’ + ‘i believe that God exists’

no religious belief : trivialise religion // bc like it or not = impt. phenomenon we should try 2 understand

Question 6

4.1 BELIEF IN GOD

Answer 6

can be INTERESTED + DISNITERESTED BELIEF
interested : can hope for benefits from that belief
disinterested : a good thing that G exists in its own right just as friendship exists

Question 7

4.2 BELIEF THAT GOD…

Answer 7

just an acceptance tbh, of a proposition

- may believe that there IS a god > no god at all but NO VALUE ATTACHED ( unlike interested + disinterested)

Question 8

4.3 : what is the difference between reasoning ABOUT God + HAVING FAITH IN GOD ?

Answer 8

reason : has value in way we talk abt. God

faith : way we value God as ‘fundamentally good thing’

Question 9

5. nothing in the idea of FAITH excludes posibility we can have reasoned evidence for what we believe as faith

Answer 9

Pope John Paul : argues that truth = known by combination of faith + reason / absence of either one diminishes opp 2 know self + God + world