Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Arthur Balfour's Dangerous Idea

Balfour is one of the early forefathers of the argument from reason, and we know that Lewis read and recommended Balfour. It was my dissertation advisor, Hugh Chandler, who discovered the connection between Balfour and the AFR, and later game me a copy of The Foundations of Belief he found in England. This post, by Jim Slagle, who wrote his master's thesis on the AFR, links to an online edition of Balfour's first philosophical book, A Defense of Philosophic Doubt, published in 1879, and my be the first post-Darwin version of the AFR to come out.

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At 8/08/2009 03:36:00 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great points...
Thanks...
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At 12/01/2009 01:27:00 PM , Anonymous Roderick T. Long said...

Given that we find a version of the argument from reason in Epicurus, I don't think Balfour counts as an "early forefather."

 

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