Sublime

Recall here our earlier discussion (under Leibniz and Hume) of the distinctions between a priori and a posteriori and between analytic and synthetic.387

“Classical” apologists, such as Norman Geisler, R.C. Sproul, and William Lane Craig, insist that, prior to making a factual, historical case for Jesus Christ, one must establish God’s existence—generally using the classical, Aristotelian proofs, or sophisticated variants on those proofs (such as Craig’s favourite, the medieval, Arabic kalam cosmolo

generalizes from particular cases. Example:

phronesis

If we locate our humanity entirely in our ability to be rational, then this raises troubling questions about the humanity of people who cannot exercise reason. If, however, we locate humanity in being made in the image of God then all human beings, whatever their capacity, are fully human and they remain fully human for the entirety of their life.

It is commonly assumed that science will someday yield a single unchanging view of things.

propose premises that support their conclusions,

truth of the premises logically (on pain of contradiction) requires the truth of the conclusion.