Philosophy · Boston College
The aim of this course is to critically evaluate the relationship between faith and reason, as a fundamental distinction which runs through the history of Western philosophical thought. From a classical perspective, faith is a type of knowledge which is not based on empirical evidence, a choice which is motivated by the will, yet does not contradict that which we know as certain. Reason is a type of knowledge which is based on empirical evidence and/or logical operations, such that the human intellect can arrive at certain knowledge about the world and the nature of the human being. Are these
