{"id":1256,"date":"2025-07-27T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/?page_id=1256"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:15:41","slug":"front-plate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-foundations-of-philosophy-epistemological-self-consciousness\/front-plate\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p class=\"p-md-5 text-center pt-5 mt-5\">\u201cAccording to the view of Christian philosophy I and others advocate, Christian philosophers should consider the whole range of problems from a Christian or theistic point of view; in trying to give philosophical account of some area or topic-freedom, for example, evil, or the nature of knowledge, or of counterfactuals, or of probability, she may perfectly properly appeal to what she knows or believes as a Christian. She is under no obligation to appeal only to beliefs shared by nearly what common sense and contemporary science dictate, for example. Nor is she obliged first to try to prove to the satisfaction of other philosophers Christianity is true before setting out on this enterprise of Christian philosophy. Instead, she is entirely within her rights in starting from her Christian beliefs addressing the philosophical problems in question.\u201d\u2014Alvin Plantinga<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-md-5 text-center\">\u201c\u2026the final question is not whether a statement appears to be contradictory. The final question is in which framework or on which view of reality\u2014the Christian or the non-Christian\u2014the law of contradiction can have application to any fact.\u201d\u2014Cornelius Van Til<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-md-5 text-center\">\u201cHaving the LORD first in your consciousness is the foundational principle of philosophy\u201d\u2014Psalm 111,10 (my translation of the LXT)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<a title=\"Copyright Information\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-foundations-of-philosophy-epistemological-self-consciousness\/copyright\/\">Copyright Information<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6 text-right\">\n<a title=\"Table of Contents\" href=\"https:\/\/planetmacneil.org\/blog\/the-foundations-of-philosophy-epistemological-self-consciousness\/table-of-contents\/\">Table of Contents<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAccording to the view of Christian philosophy I and others advocate, Christian philosophers should consider the whole range of problems from a Christian or theistic point of view; in trying to give philosophical account of some area or topic-freedom, for example, evil, or the nature of knowledge, or of counterfactuals, or of probability, she may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1176,"parent":1136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1256","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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