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14.2.24

faith and reason after Kant

 The best way to combine faith and reason after Kant is through the approach of Leonard Nelson and his new Friesian School. Sadly, the best spokesman for this approach,  Kelley Ross, does not seem to be updating his website [friesian.com] anymore. There were -- great thinkers before that that also walked this path of faith and reason, but they were all before Kant, and thus do not take the points of the mind-body problem into account, nor Kant's solution. Though Hegel also can be understood as taking the place of Aquinas in bringing about a faith and reason approach (see Kaufman), still he never actually deals with the mind-body problem directly. Thus, it is better to go with the idea of Fries of immediate non intuitive knowledge. [Besides that, Hegel is used to prop up Communism. The history of Communism of 100 millions dead ought to give one pause as to how accurate a theory it is,- especially in view of its stated goals of bring about utopia.]