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| Faith and Reason: an Alternative Gandhian Understanding | ||
| 作者 | Puri, Bindu (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Dharma Studies: Asian and Transcultural Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.2 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2020.03 |
| 頁次 | 199 - 219 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.springer.com/gp |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Authors and Affiliations: Centre For Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India |
| 關鍵詞 | Faith; Reason; Secular; Rational; Moral; Religious integrity; Truth; Bhagavad Gita; Ahimsa |
| 摘要 | Liberal theory and practice rests upon, and constantly re-affirms, a division between the secular/rational and the religious/faithful aspects of individual life. This paper will explore the philosophical implications of an alternative Gandhian understanding of the role of faith and reason in individual life. The paper will argue that M K Gandhi thought of moral life differently from both the religious traditionalist and the liberal. The distinctiveness of Gandhi’s vision came from the manner in which he could reconcile two very different ways of thinking about the good human life. These could be simply put as the religious insight (which is well articulated in the Aristotelian position) into the good life as an essentially integrated life and the alternative liberal insight that morality was better connected with the idea of universalizability/reciprocity. The first section of this paper entitled “An alternative Gandhian understanding of faith, reason, and the integrity of the good life” philosophically unpacks Gandhi’s arguments about the integrity between faith and reason in reading religious texts with a view to living a good life. The second section is entitled “On religious belief: Gandhi and liberalism”. It brings out the differences between Gandhi and liberals on faith, reason, and the truth of religious belief. Both Gandhi and the liberals agree that religious beliefs should be held with modesty. However, the liberal argument for modesty comes from an avowed skepticism about the truth of religious belief. It is such skepticism that philosophically grounds the liberal division between faith and reason. In this section, there will be an attempt to bring out Gandhi’s reasons for being modest about religious beliefs held with certitude. The paper ends with the thought that though one cannot say which of these positions on faith and reason—Gandhian or liberal—is more coherent, there is some reason for exploring the Gandhian position if only because religious persons can act on Gandhi’s arguments quite consistently with their faith. |
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| ISSN | 25220926 (P); 25220934 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-019-00048-9 |
| 點閱次數 | 85 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.08.25 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.08.25 |
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