The Freedom of Science
by Josef Donat
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Chapters (115)
- Imprimatur.
- Author's Preface To The English Edition.
- Translator's Note.
- First Section. The Freedom of Science and its Philosophical Basis.
- Chapter I. Science And Freedom.
- Science.
- Freedom.
- Chapter II. Two Views Of The World And Their Freedom.
- The Christian View of the World and its Freedom.
- The Modern Idea of Freedom.
- The Humanitarian View of the World.
- The Autonomous Man.
- The Period of Man's Emancipation.
- Chapter III. Subjectivism And Its Freedom.
- Objectivism and Subjectivism.
- The Autonomy of Reason.
- The Modern Separation of Knowledge and Faith.
- Relative Truth.
- Second Section. Freedom of Research and Faith.
- Chapter I. Research And Faith In General.
- Introduction.
- What Faith is Not.
- What Faith Is.
- Faith and Reason.
- Chapter II. The Authority Of Faith And The Free Exercise Of Research.
- Preliminary Remarks.
- 1. Authority of Faith and Private Authority.
- 2. Science Retains its Method of Research.
- 3. Restraint Only in the Province of Revelation.
- 4. Infallible and Non-Infallible Teachings.
- Obedience of Faith and Freedom of Action.
- Obedience of Faith and Injury to Science.
- Erravimus.
- Chapter III. Unprepossession Of Research.
- What It Is.
- Unprepossession and Religious Conviction.
- The Duty to Believe and Scientific Demonstration.
- What Unprepossession is Not.
- An Erroneous Supposition.
- Chapter IV. Accusations And Objections.
- The Enemy of Progress.
- The Testimony of History.
- A False Progress.
- The Syllabus.
- The Condemnation of Modernism.
- The Index.
- Galileo, and Other Topics.
- Comments on the Galileo Case.
- Copernicus on the Index till 1835.
- Chapter V. The Witnesses of the Incompatibility Of Science And Faith.
- The Objection.
- The Old Masters.
- Modern Times.
- Mature Science Respects Faith.
- Third Section. The Liberal Freedom of Research.
- The Yoke of the Sun.
- Chapter I. Free From The Yoke Of The Supernatural.
- Ignoramus, We Ignore.
- The Principle of Exclusive Natural Causation.
- “I Know not Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son, Our Lord.”
- The Truth is not in Them.
- Chapter II. The Unscientific Method.
- False Reasoning.
- Without Knowledge of the Human Nature.
- Mental Bondage.
- Without Earnestness.
- Without Reverence.
- Chapter III. The Bitter Fruit.
- The Vocation of Science.
- Are We Still Christians?
- Reduced to Beggary.
- Despairing of Truth.
- In All Directions of the Compass.
- Without Peace and without Joy.
- A Rock in the Waters.
- Fourth Section. Freedom of Teaching.
- Preliminary Conceptions and Distinctions.
- Chapter I. Freedom Of Teaching And Ethics.
- Freedom of Teaching is Necessary.
- A Twofold Freedom of Teaching and Its Presumption.
- Unlimited Freedom in Teaching not Demanded.
- 1. Not by Veracity.
- 2. Not the Duty of Science.
- 3. No Innate Right.
- Unrestricted Freedom of Teaching Inadmissible.
- “Every One to Form His Own Judgment”?
- “Knowledge does no Harm”?
- “The Vehicle of Truth.”
- Serious Charges.
- Tell Me with Whom Thou Goest.
- The Responsibility before History.
- Chapter II. Freedom Of Teaching And The State.
- Universities as State Institutions.
- The Object of the State.
- Protection for the Spiritual Foundations of Life.
- Protection for Christianity.
- Restriction of Right.
- The Freedom of Teaching in History.
- Freedom of Teaching and Party Rule.
- Free Universities.
- The Church and the Universities.
- Fifth Section. Theology.
- Chapter I. Theology And Science.
- Theology as a Science.
- Theology and Progress.
- Theology and Freedom of Science.
- Ecclesiastical Supervision of Teaching.
- The Oath Against Modernism.
- Bonds of Love, not of Servitude.
- Chapter II. Theology And University.
- Do we Desire to Remain Christians?
- Theological Faculty in State and Church.
- Law and Freedom. An Epilogue.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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