By Robert M. Frazier
"When is trust dependable and whilst is it no longer? Complexities abound during this zone of inquiry, yet Frazier contends that a solution needs to attend to the heritage and the psychology of a trust. moreover, highbrow virtues needs to be entrance and middle, in line with his tale. rules from Aristotle, Philo, Augustine, and Peirce loom huge, as theology joins philosophy within the quest for clarification. Readers will locate right here an abundance of suitable principles as they search a accountable portrait of liable belief.
--Paul ok. Moser, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola collage Chicago
"This scholarly paintings displays the seasoning of a existence shaped in and dedicated to the very issues it commends. Arguing that glossy epistemology, with its slim specialize in justification, is ill-equipped to mature humans in dependable believing, Frazier faucets the traditional greats to suggest a much wider account: people' normal inclination to fact, hampered through our prideful self-deception, could be wooed via the world's intimations of attractiveness, and restored via highbrow love and humility, and a spirituality of inquiry."
--Esther Lightcap Meek, Professor of Philosophy, Geneva collage; writer of Loving to grasp: Introducing Covenant Epistemology and different books on knowing
Robert M. Frazier is Professor of Philosophy at Geneva university, Beaver Falls, PA.
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