The Depravity of Wisdom: The Protestant Reformation and the Disengagement of Knowledge from Virtue in Modern Philosophy (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Painter, Mark A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138342424 ISBN 13: 9781138342422

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

First published in 1999, the primary operative thesis of the book is that the Protestant Reformation cemented into Western consciousness a conception of humanity as fundamentally depraved and thus ushered in a conception of human reason far more restricted in scope than that known to pre-reformation philosophy. Though this study is essentially a work in the history of philosophy, it lays the groundwork for an original philosophy of language as well as offering a suggestion for a re-evaluation of Hegel in the light of this approach to language. The book concludes that what was in fact lost in the secular appropriation of the total depravity of man was a conception of reason intimately linked to the assumption that language and the general principles that govern it stand in some way as the guarantors of the correspondence of human thought and institutions and the world at large. At the bottom of this is the loss of the classical understanding of the faculty of practical reason.

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Mark A. Painter

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138342424
• ISBN 13: 9781138342422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142