Faith as Imagination and the Despair Problem

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According to non-doxasticism, religious faith can be in an important sense belief-less. However, such faith becomes vulnerable to the despair-problem known from the literature on hope. I suggest that the problem can be overcome by adopting J. L. Schellenberg’s imagination-based account of non-doxastic faith. In developing this idea, I draw on the account of imagination offered by Amy Kind and an understanding of despair suggested by Cheshire Calhoun. The core of my proposal is that faith excludes despair if both attitudes are conceived of in terms of holding a phenomenological picture of the world in one’s imagination.
Originalspråkengelska
Titel på värdpublikationImagination in Religion
Undertitel på värdpublikationPerspectives from the Philosophy of Religion
RedaktörerEspen Dahl, Jan-Olov Henriksen, Marius T. Mjaaland
FörlagLIT Verlag
Sidor111-125
Antal sidor15
ISBN (tryckt)978-3-643-91210-7
StatusPublished - 2021
EvenemangWings of Desire: The Limits and Potentialities of Imagination within the Philosophy of Religion - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark
Varaktighet: 2019 juni 132019 juni 15

Publikationsserier

NamnNordic Studies in Theology
Volym8

Konferens

KonferensWings of Desire
Land/TerritoriumDanmark
OrtAarhus
Period2019/06/132019/06/15

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Filosofi

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