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Authority
In J. B. Stump & Alan G. Padgett (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 74-81 (2012)
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This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Epistemic versus Practical Authority * Scientific Authority and Its Limits * The Validation for Acknowledging Authority * Ecclesiastical Authority * Which One? * Note * References * Further ReadingAuthor's Profile
authority authority, a complex many-sided issue epistemic versus practical authority scientific community, arbiter of cognitive authority scientific authority and its limits, authoritative in issues of means acknowledgement of authority, a functional rationale inescapable fact, limitedness of personal capabilities Aristotle's eudaimonia, the cognitive, moral, and affective endorsement, the basis for ecclesiastical authority ecclesiastical, rational in its goal of life-enhancement
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