Mark Hopwood

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Elucidations · Episode 20: Simon Critchley discusses faith · 8 Feb 2011 podcast

So the idea there would be that to believe something against all the evidence or without sufficient evidence is just intellectually irresponsible. voice-verified

Faith looks like the opposite of intellectual responsibility. voice-verified

You've said yourself that you take at least one thing on faith, but where would you come down on this question of faith as a virtue or faith as intellectual responsibility? voice-verified

So you've talked about faith, particularly in relation to Paul, as a kind of response to a call. voice-verified

I wonder if you could say something about that. voice-verified

So it seems like from what you've written there, Paul's faith, his expression of faith. voice-verified

is of a fundamentally different kind from our expressions of beliefs about historical events or something that's in front of me on the table. voice-verified

So maybe you could say something about that. voice-verified

What does it mean to say that faith is a response to a call? voice-verified

So it seemed to me that earlier on you made a fairly strong claim about this kind of commitment, which is that it's really necessary. voice-verified

It's not just that we can separate this set of people who we're gonna call religious and they base their ethical and religious lives on on a certain kind of faith, a kind of commitment that's not grounded in the normal standards of evidence or justification. voice-verified

But that's just this small set of people. voice-verified

It seemed like when you were talking about voice-verified

What we have, the standard response would be, is reason. voice-verified

So I feel like I want to press you on this. voice-verified

Someone might respond to your claim that this kind of commitment is necessary by simply denying that that's true in that case. voice-verified

So they don't subscribe to what Matt called spooky religious beliefs. voice-verified

They really don't think that they take anything without the appropriate kind of evidence or voice-verified

justification. voice-verified

So they would deny, I guess both that some kind of faith, some kind of ungrounded commitment is necessary for moral life and indeed that it's at all desirable. voice-verified

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