The Life of Irony and the Ethics of BeliefWisdo concludes that the fragility of religious belief is due to the unavoidable irony intrinsic to the religious life. |
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Contents
SelfTrust and the Ethics of Belief | 1 |
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 |
Between Objectivity and Subjectivity The Life of Irony | 127 |
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| Title | The Life of Irony and the Ethics of Belief SUNY series in philosophy Suny Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory |
| Author | David Wisdo |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0791412210, 9780791412213 |
| Length | 153 pages |
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