John Finnis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199580095
- eISBN:
- 9780191729416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580095.003.0009
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter offers a brief excerpt from a 2008 essay which also included Chapter 5 in Volume I of this text (on Bernard Williams and truth's values) and Chapter 7 in Volume II (on nations) discusses ...
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This chapter offers a brief excerpt from a 2008 essay which also included Chapter 5 in Volume I of this text (on Bernard Williams and truth's values) and Chapter 7 in Volume II (on nations) discusses both natural revelation and the different, historical revelation to Israel completed by Jesus of Nazareth. Ethics precedes faith in two ways: it bears on the love of truth that grounds ‘natural’ revelation, and it hears on the assessment of the reliability of purported bearers of historical revelation (prophets). Part of the historical revelation, moreover, is that its moral teachings are all accessible to reason.Less
This chapter offers a brief excerpt from a 2008 essay which also included Chapter 5 in Volume I of this text (on Bernard Williams and truth's values) and Chapter 7 in Volume II (on nations) discusses both natural revelation and the different, historical revelation to Israel completed by Jesus of Nazareth. Ethics precedes faith in two ways: it bears on the love of truth that grounds ‘natural’ revelation, and it hears on the assessment of the reliability of purported bearers of historical revelation (prophets). Part of the historical revelation, moreover, is that its moral teachings are all accessible to reason.
Jane Blocker
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816696970
- eISBN:
- 9781452952321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816696970.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
This chapter considers the historiographic philosophies of science fiction writer and memoirist Samuel Delany and documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, especially their concern with the relation ...
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This chapter considers the historiographic philosophies of science fiction writer and memoirist Samuel Delany and documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, especially their concern with the relation between fictional and factual accounts of the past. This chapter explores how their work productively skips in time and place to produce profound historical revelations about race and sexuality and the relation between history and the paternal.Less
This chapter considers the historiographic philosophies of science fiction writer and memoirist Samuel Delany and documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, especially their concern with the relation between fictional and factual accounts of the past. This chapter explores how their work productively skips in time and place to produce profound historical revelations about race and sexuality and the relation between history and the paternal.
