M. Tullii Ciceronis De Natura Deorum Libri Tres: With The Commentary Of G. F. Schoemann (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

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9780265251485: M. Tullii Ciceronis De Natura Deorum Libri Tres: With The Commentary Of G. F. Schoemann (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265251486 ISBN 13: 9780265251485

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Excerpt from M. Tullii Ciceronis De Natura Deorum Libri Tres: With The Commentary Of G. F. Schoemann

The philosophy of religion has to deal with the most important questions which can occupy the human mind. These regard the existence and nature of those unseen powers which are felt by man to control both his own inner and outer life, and the visible world about him. There is one answer ever ready for these questions religion, older than any philosophy, offers a body of more or less definite conceptions which constitute the popular faith; and this faith is realized in the public worship and in the whole religious tone of the people. But in this as in all other matters there comes a time in the intellectual development of all nations when the more advanced minds feel a need, which is the beginning and end of all philosophy, the need of positive knowledge. People are no longer able to accept the traditions of religion upon mere faith; they ask for the reason of faith, for the ground of the prevailing ideas; and if religion cannot make good its claims by appeal to a higher authority, to a divine revelation, and thus raise its domain above all doubt or cavil (a thing which the religions of antiquity neither were able nor pretended to do), the necessary consequence is that reason makes an attempt to find an answer to these questions in her own way; and she then concedes the truth of the traditional faith only in so far as it coincides with or at least does not contra diet her own conclusions.

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