Inevitable Choices
Blogged by James Preece on 9th September 2008
Interesting article from MercatorNet...
University students face four competing world views as they navigate their way through modern culture. They can only choose one of them.
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The four worldviews are:
1) Fideism, which says that faith is the sole means at our disposal in the quest for truth; we can therefore refer to it as the philosophy of sola fides;
2) Modernism, also known as rationalism, scientism or positivism, which says that reason is the sole means we have in our quest for truth; we can refer to it as the philosophy of sola ratio;
3) Postmodernism, also known as cultural or moral relativism, or nihilism, which says there is no such thing as objective truth and that, therefore, faith and reason are of no use; we can call this philosophy that of nec ratio, nec fides; and
4) Catholicism, which says that the search for truth requires both faith and reason; we can thus refer to it as being based on fides et ratio.
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