The Life of Irony and the Ethics of BeliefState University of New York Press, 1992 M12 8 - 153 pages Wisdo concludes that the fragility of religious belief is due to the unavoidable irony intrinsic to the religious life. |
Contents
The Ethics of Belief and Personal Knowledge | 13 |
The Ethics of Belief and the Meaning of Life | 37 |
Religious Belief and SelfUnderstanding | 55 |
SelfDeception and the Ethics of Belief | 73 |
The Fragility of Faith | 87 |
Reductionism and the Ethics of Belief | 105 |
The Life of Irony | 127 |
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