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Quote by Peter Kreeft

“Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.”

Book:Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

Work

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

This book serves as a resource for understanding and defending Christian theology and doctrine through various apologetic methods and arguments. more

Author

Peter Kreeft

Peter Kreeft is a renowned American philosopher, theologian, and author. Born in 1937, he is known for his contributions to Christian philosophy and logic. Professor Kreeft has taught at several prestigious universities, including Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught philosophy and theology. His extensive body of work covers a wide range of topics from ethics to religious philosophy. more

“Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they do it when they no longer have the courage to carry on past some recent painful experience. They commit what is, in the end, a desperate, final call for help, that is hopefully heard in time by someone else. And what if it's not heard in time? I ask although I know the answer. Then they die.”

Reason Suicide Why

Book:Aimee

Source: Aimee

“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the winning ticket in lit-crit today. More typical are sentiments that see such a notion as not even admissible, if at all desirable. The world of these academic refuseniks is, however, a bleak and sterile place. Disarmed by their own epistemic fiat, scholars cannot assert anything since they deny the idea of objective rationality. If they arrive at an insight whose truth they wish to defend – for example that truth and rationality are passé – they can’t do so because truth and rationality are constructed to be constructed.”

Reason Literary Criticism

Book:Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

Source: Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”

Reason Hero Prejudice

Author:Montague Brown

“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”