The most extreme example of this position is called fideism, which holds that faith is simply the will to believe, and argues that if God's existence were rationally demonstrable, faith in its existence would become superfluous.
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In the encyclical, John Paul II warned against " a resurgence of fideism, which fails to recognize the importance of rational knowledge and philosophical discourse for the understanding of faith, indeed for the very possibility of belief in God ."
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There was another journey, one within himself; he boarded the " ship " of science, knowledge, and religion ( starting from the Indian Fideism, Zoroaster, Buddha; and ending with Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.
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Though the theologians of the Protestant Reformation showed little direct interest in philosophy, their destruction of the traditional foundations of theological and intellectual authority harmonized with a revival of fideism and skepticism in thinkers such as Erasmus, Montaigne, and Francisco Sanches.
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Danish theologian and philosopher S�ren Kierkegaard adopted " Hume's suggestion that the role of reason is not to make us wise but to reveal our ignorance . " However, Kierkegaard took this as a reason for the necessity of religious faith, or fideism.
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"' Humanism "'& ndash; group of philosophies and ethical perspectives which emphasize the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers individual thought and evidence ( rationalism, empiricism ), over established doctrine or faith ( fideism ).
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The phrase is thus sometimes associated with the doctrine of fideism, that is, " a system of philosophy or an attitude of mind, which, denying the power of unaided human reason to reach certitude, affirms that the fundamental act of human knowledge consists in an act of faith, and the supreme criterion of certitude is authority . " ( " Catholic Encyclopedia " ).
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The name " contemplative philosophy " was first coined by D . Z . Phillips in " Philosophy's Cool Place ", which rests on an interpretation of a passage from Wittgenstein's " Culture and Value . " This interpretation was first labeled, " Wittgensteinian Fideism, " by Kai Nielsen but those who consider themselves Wittgensteinians in the Swansea tradition have relentlessly and repeatedly rejected this construal as a caricature of Wittgenstein's considered position; this is especially true of D . Z . Phillips.
