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logic of appeals to authority.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
The Apology, as recorded by Plato, his student, is a bracing defense of the individual in search of truth:
A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong. . . . I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I sh
nationalreview.com • A Brief History of Individual Rights | National Review
He pointed out that there are plenty of beliefs that we deem rationally acceptable even though we have little evidence for them.
Brian K. Morley • Mapping Apologetics: Comparing Contemporary Approaches
the viability and truth of one over the other perhaps proves to be the most important philosophical question to be asked.
Duane Armitage • Heidegger and the Death of God: Between Plato and Nietzsche
Believing in Order to See: On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
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it makes sense to believe in both reason and God, and it may make a kind of nonsensical sense to believe in neither, but it is ultimately contradictory to believe in one but not the other.
David Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
truth of the premises logically (on pain of contradiction) requires the truth of the conclusion.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
neo-orthodox