Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD student in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz
2 associate professor of philosophy
3 Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
In modern thought, started from Cartesian philosophy, there is no room for any knowledge beyond reason so that everything cannot be perceived by reason regarded as unknowable. Descartes believes that faith cannot be a kind of human knowledge and as a result of this fact, he separates them as two different matters of two different essences. He regards faith as a belief and equates it with reliance or confidence. Faith, contrary to knowledge and rationality which acquired step by step through human endeavor, occurs suddenly. The divine revelation transcends us to the immune belief in God not through gradual process but through immediate change. Regarding to the method, Descartes maintains that his method (i. e. mathematical one) is not applicable to the realm of faith because it is confined to that of reason. Finally, in confliction between reason and faith, Descartes sides with the latter, and plainly pronounces that it is impossible to have the theology as a science.
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