What is faith? In what ways might faith be a virtue, a component of a life well lived? How might faith be corrupted and become a vice?
In Why Faith Is a Virtue, Philip D. Smith builds on the work of Alasdair Mac Intyre and Robert Adams to argue that faith contributes to human excellence. To make the argument, Smith sorts through conflicting possible ‘faiths’ and shows how some of them are not virtues at all. Nevertheless, he argues that faith, properly understood, contributes to ...
About the author
Philip D. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He is the author of The Virtue of Civility in the Practice of Politics and, ...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 182 ● ISBN 9781630871482 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers ● City Eugene ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6887631 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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