Clifford Geertz on Rorty’s Wittgenstein “The grounding of feeling, thought, and judgment in a form of life—which indeed is the only place, in my view, as it is in Rorty’s, that they can be grounded—is taken to mean [by Rorty] that the limits of my world are the limits of my language, which is not […]
Nicholas Lash on divine and human knowledge “The supposition that there could be a single ‘basic sense’ of ‘know,’ held constant ‘across the divine-human gap,’ risks giving the impression that bodiliness is, in the last analysis, incidental to what, in human beings, knowledge means, and to how we come to know things. It is, after […]
Ludwig Wittgenstein on autobiography “You cannot write anything about yourself that is more truthful than you yourself are. That is the difference between writing about yourself and writing about external objects. You write about yourself from your own height. You don’t stand on stilts or on a ladder but on your bare feet.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, […]
Robert Jenson on trusting God “All things are in God’s hand, all events are subject to his will. Therein is double offense. First, if all is in God’s hand, none of it is in ours, except as he takes our hand in his. … We do not want it to be that way; that we […]
Fergus Kerr on rationalist apologetics The point has been well made by Bernard Williams. Reviewing J. L. Mackie’s demonstration of the incoherence of the arguments for the probability of God’s existence that certain modern philosophers of religion favour, Williams, himself an atheist, notes that Mackie’s refutations leave the real question in tact. The intellectual case […]
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