Final Flashcards
(14 cards)
Aquinas
Open door to liberalism:
By saying reason isn’t fallen
Dismisses revelation
2 things from Liberalism
Empiricism- senses
Rationalism- reason the mind
Locke
Everything from outside
“Tabula Rosa”
“ No innate ideas”
Hume
Extreme skeptic
Kant
Watershed
Essence of religion is morality
Reject revelation/ knowledge for oughtness
Reached dead end
Descartes
“Cogito ergo sum”
“Start with innate ideas”
“Reason alone can get you there.”
Hegel
Idealist
Thesis, Antithesis, synthesis
-always improving
-change in concept of truth
Schleiermacher
Essence of religion:
God consciousness
“Sense of absolute dependence”- which the Bible is an important witness to it
Kirkegard
Crosses line of despair
How does Kirkegard get us here (across line of despair?)
Subjective existentialism
From subjective existentialism you have?
Irrational leap- never get to upper floor- if you don’t know meaning, just fake it.
Kirkegard and existentialism says?
“You’ll never know”
“There’s no way above the line.”
Who is Father of modern/ liberal thought
Schleiermacher
When you cross the line of despair what happens?
Loose metanarratives
