I am also grateful to the following institutions for facilitating my research and writing during the academic year 1981- 82: the University of Guelph, which granted me sabbatical leave of absence for the year; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which granted me a Leave Fellowship for the year; the University of Birmingham, which conferred on me the status of Honorary Re [...] I have already said that the sole and final judgment on the validity of an inference in concrete matter is committed to the personal action of the ratiocinative faculty, the perfection or virtue of which I have called the Illative Sense, a use of the word "sense" parallel to our use of it in "good sense," "common sense," a "sense of beauty," &c.;—and I own I do not see any way to go farther than t [...] Is there any test of the validity of it better than the ipse dixit of private judgment, that is, the judgment of those who have a right to judge, and next, the agreement of many private judgments in one and the same view of it? [...] What has the deep and lofty thought of its disciples ended in but eloquent words?" In the same section of The Idea of a University, he reminds us that philosophy and reason failed to support Cicero under the disfavour of the fickle populace and could not serve Seneca to oppose an imperial tyrant; they abandoned Brutus in his greatest need and forced Cato into the position of defying heaven.4 A few [...] Newman's Philosophical Project 7 "very error which he is exposing right through the Grammar of Assent, the error of the cerebral approach to the great problems of existence."11 With Blaise Pascal, S0ren Kierkegaard, and the humanistic prag- matists and existentialists of our own age, Newman is interested in the "whole" person and is convinced that the great philosophers have overvalued the intelle
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- Chapter One: Newman's Philosophical Project 14
- 1 Two claims about how we come to be certain about things 14
- 2 Two examples: One secular, one religious 15
- 3 Cor ad cor loquitur 17
- 4 Newman as a philosopher 20
- 5 The evolving project 23
- 6 The structure of the Grammar 27
- 7 The Grammar as an attempt at self-vindication 31
- 8 Objectives of the project 34
- 9 The Grammar as phenomenology of belief 36
- 10 The Grammar as epistemology 39
- 11 The politics of the Grammar: Newman against the "liberals" 42
- Chapter Two: Modes of Apprehension and Belief 48
- 1 The "holding" of propositions 48
- 2 The apprehension of propositions 52
- 3 "Profession" 61
- 4 Notional and real belief contrasted 71
- Chapter Three: Religious Belief as "Real" 79
- 1 Real belief in God 79
- 2 Conscience as a source of justified belief in God 91
- 3 Phenomenology of the Christian faith 102
- Chapter Four: Degrees of Belief 112
- 1 The unconditionality of belief 112
- 2 Certitude 137
- Chapter Five: Formal and Informal Inference 148
- 1 The limits of formal inference 148
- 2 Informal inference 158
- 3 Natural inference 173
- Chapter Six: The Illative Sense 177
- 1 Illative judgment contrasted with inference 177
- 2 Coda: An egotist's apologetic 188
- 3 Models of illative judgment 199
- A: A Gestalt model: D'Arcy 199
- B: A pragmatic model: Schiller 200
- C: A fictionalist model: Vaihinger 203
- D: A psychoanalytical model: Freud 204
- E: A religious-mystical model: Newman? 205
- Chapter Seven: Mens ad Cor Loquitur 207
- 1 Why there is so little analytical criticism of the Grammar 207
- 2 What is at stake here? 210
- 3 A final illustration 214
- Index 218
- A 218
- B 218
- C 218
- D 218
- E 219
- F 219
- G 219
- H 219
- I 219
- J 220
- K 220
- L 220
- M 220
- N 220
- O 221
- P 221
- R 221
- S 222
- T 222
- U 222
- V 222
- W 222
- Y 222
- Z 222