Reason, the Only Oracle of Man

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003485889-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003485889-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003485889-6" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003485889-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reason, the Only Oracle of Man

Original language description

This chapter analyzes the development of Renaissance philosophy from its Byzantine sources to the openly secular attempts of some of its proponents to demonstrate that human reason, rather than divine revelation in the traditional sense, became the central source of revelation. However, during the Baroque age and the new era of scientific development, there was a countercurrent that led to the reestablishment of absolute transcendence and the authority of divine revelation in the works of leading pre-Enlightenment scholars. One such scholar was Croatian-born Rogerius Josephus Boscovich. The author argues that there is a parallelism between the ‘rebirth of the transcendence’ in scientific circles in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. He asserts that we can return from the ‘oracles of reason’ to the ‘reason of oracles’ only if we learn from past attempts to reconcile reason and revelation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-17059S" target="_blank" >GA21-17059S: Pantheism and Panpsychism in the Renaissance and the Emergence of Secularism</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Divine Revelation and the Sciences Essays in the History and Philosophy of Revelation

ISBN

978-1-03-278016-0

Number of pages of the result

20

Pages from-to

80-99

Number of pages of the book

262

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS chapter

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