Faith and Reason, Augustine and Aquinas (Intro to Philosophy Part 2)

Philosophy presents us with many ultimate questions about life. How do we find the answers to these questions? Thinkers have proposed both faith and reason as ways to answer them. Popular culture today presents faith and reason as if they are incompatible. Some say faith is just the failure of reason by choosing to believe something without evidence. Others say reason is inadequate and that we just need to make a “leap of faith.” Is this true? Are faith and reason really in conflict? Two very influential Western thinkers, Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, would disagree. They both thought faith and reason could work together, that faith and reason worked best when they reinforced each other, not when they were separated.

[pedroviaud]

I don’t see any conflict between faith and reasoning, they complement one another, both are a gift of God and we have a lot of freedom to apply them

[johnwinslow]

Hi, Adam and thanks for your video. I would like to comment on your claim that, "we can never know everything that there is to know about something..." (57:48). That is a claim to certainty. Thus, your claim seems to be self-refuting. Actually, we can have justified, true belief (entailing certainty) through direct communication or revelation from God to ourselves. This is something like what Alvin Plantinga describes as "properly basic belief." However, perhaps your claim is within the context of public certainty? That is, what we can convincingly demonstrate or show publicly?