An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Ascent

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Ascent

RM 12.39

ISBN:

6610000136070

Categories:

Religion

File Size

1.55 MB

Format

epub

Language

English

Release Year

2018
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Synopsis

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (commonly abbreviated to the last three words) is John Henry Newman's seminal book on the philosophy of faith. Completed in 1870, Newman revealed to friends that it took him 20 years to write the book. Newman's aim was to show that the scientific standards for evidence and assent are too narrow and inapplicable in concrete life. He argued that logic and its conclusions are not transferable to real life decision making as such. As a result, it is inappropriate to judge the validity of assent in concrete faith by conventional logical standards because paper logic is unequal to the task.