Clarity Of God Owen Anderson Summary
A OWENS, Clarity of God’s Existence: The Ethics of Belief after the Enlightenment, Wipf and Stock Publishers: USA, 2008, 222pp.
By Michael Wiame
Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy and Religious studies and a research fellow in the Princeton University. He published several books including The Declaration of Independence and God the Natural Moral Law. He specializes in epistemology, ethics of belief and Religion in America among others.
In his exciting publication on the Clarity of God’s existence: The Ethics of Belief in the Enlightenment, O. Anderson pointed two principles of importance. His emphasizes on the clarity is provocative which provides the idea the notion of the supreme being-God be analyzed and secondly he connects our fundamental and creative way to human notion of being responsible in …show more content…
Enlightenment begins with Descartes which serves as the foundation for knowledge (A Owen p.xiii) however failed now according to the thinking of both the secular and religious. So what is the idea of building up foundation of knowledge. In this regard Owen said, “there are two distinct processes, they are inadequate candidate for clear and distinct ideas were used as foundation and secondly shown to be insufficient by philosophers such as Hume and Kant” (Owen xiii). It not their argument against religion or authority of the scripture etc. but their critique of reason. But if nothing is clear like the existence of the reality, the eternity, will the human beings be responsible for anything? “If someone believes in something than he is responsible and it must be clear, if there is no clarity than he is not responsible for his belief.”(Owen, xiv). There is a relationship of responsibility and the notion of clarity. A. Owen further clarified that “if there is a degree of responsibility and
By Michael Wiame
Owen Anderson is a professor of philosophy and Religious studies and a research fellow in the Princeton University. He published several books including The Declaration of Independence and God the Natural Moral Law. He specializes in epistemology, ethics of belief and Religion in America among others.
In his exciting publication on the Clarity of God’s existence: The Ethics of Belief in the Enlightenment, O. Anderson pointed two principles of importance. His emphasizes on the clarity is provocative which provides the idea the notion of the supreme being-God be analyzed and secondly he connects our fundamental and creative way to human notion of being responsible in …show more content…
Enlightenment begins with Descartes which serves as the foundation for knowledge (A Owen p.xiii) however failed now according to the thinking of both the secular and religious. So what is the idea of building up foundation of knowledge. In this regard Owen said, “there are two distinct processes, they are inadequate candidate for clear and distinct ideas were used as foundation and secondly shown to be insufficient by philosophers such as Hume and Kant” (Owen xiii). It not their argument against religion or authority of the scripture etc. but their critique of reason. But if nothing is clear like the existence of the reality, the eternity, will the human beings be responsible for anything? “If someone believes in something than he is responsible and it must be clear, if there is no clarity than he is not responsible for his belief.”(Owen, xiv). There is a relationship of responsibility and the notion of clarity. A. Owen further clarified that “if there is a degree of responsibility and