The Ethics of Belief

This section provides two alternatives to articles by William K. Clifford (1845-1879) and William James (1842-1910). Clifford's paper 'Ethics of Faith' is based on the concept of evidence. The concept is "We believe that we should not accept any statement as true unless there is sufficient evidence to support the truth" (Voice of wisdom, 346). James wrote his article "will believe." In response to Clifford's article, he supported the philosophy called pragmatism. This book explains pragmatism as a way to solve the philosophical controversy.

At first glance "Permanent Ethics of Faith" contradicts that. Faith ethics assumes that we should try to respect the norms of belief formation. Being tolerant of the issue of faith seems to mean that you do not have to do anything for faith. We do not consider specific specs, but they are all welcome. 11 Therefore, explicitism is only an explanatory argument. It does not specify attitudes towards the subject. Furthermore, it does not specify what it means about the subject of "evidence" (does this mean that he holds the evidence by considering existing evidence?). Finally, we do not specify that p must comply with the subject knowledge of the evidence of p in order to make c cognitively reasonable.

In an acceptable belief ethics, if no one opposed, that belief is reasonable. It is considered innocent (ie truth) until it is proved guilty (until there is a reason to doubt it). As we have seen, the acknowledged belief in ethics also suggests that we guarantee that we are convinced that p is consistent with existing evidence. However, "existing evidence" does not correspond to evidence explicitly determining p corresponding to p losers. According to a ridiculous policy, we do not need to be sensitive to the same data.

In "belief ethics", William Clifford believes that no one can believe that there is no evidence anywhere, anytime. An example was the owner of the ship, he gave up overhaul of his ship, conquered his doubts, believed that his ship was worth more than spending examination and making the necessary repair . This example is a belief in self-interest. For his own interests, the owner of the ship overcame his doubts. Then he gathered his insurance, and everyone on his boat died in the sea as the proof proved that the ship was not seaworthy.