1860.Gamwell

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Gamwell says, "[i]n itself, affirmation of the way of reason says nothing about what understanding of ultimate worth can be validated" (Politics as a Christian Vocation: 168). But, surely, affirmation of the way of reason says or at least implie4this about what understanding of ultimate worth can be validated-namely, that no such understanding can be validated unlesswhatever else it may assert or imply-it asserts or implies the validity of the way of reason. is "a faith, namely, as an aspect of every primal decision for a self-wl.derstanding, whatever its content may otherwise be"?

Could this be what Gamwell himself in effect allows when he immediately goes on to say that "in another sense," the humanistic commitment

8 November 2004