1st Edition

Belief and Unbelief A Philosophy of Self-knowledge

By Michael Novak Copyright 1994
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

241 Pages
by Routledge

This is perhaps the most widely read of Michael Novak's books. Belief and Unbelief attempts to push intelligence and articulation as far as possible into the stuff of what so many philosophers set aside as subjectivity. It is an impassioned critique of the idea of an unbridgeable gap between the emotive and the cognitive — and in its own way, represents a major thrust at positivist analysis.... Read more
Introduction: A Dialectical Inquiry; The Cultural Context; Philosophy as Self-Knowledge; Deciding Who I Am; What Do I Mean by “god”; Deciding Whether To Believe; God Or Evil; An Effective Humanism

Biography

Michael Novak