Ryan

A note on these notes: I read this book after an exchange with Jean-Luc Marion himself. One of the questions I posed to him was whether or not his project fell victim to fideism. He suggested I "have a look" at this work of his on Augustine. Now, I define a fideist as one who says that God cannot be known with certainty from the things that have been made, by the natural light of human reason. This was the definition given to it when Vatican Council I anathematized it. I allow for some flexibility with the word "certainty" here. A high degree of probability could qualify as what the Scholastics called "practical certainty" (see Wuellner, Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy). I do not have much background in Continental philosophy or in Phenomenology. I do have some background study in Aristotle, Aquinas, Peirce, Plantinga, and a smattering of others. As such, I am not really equipped to fully understand Marion, but I did the best I could. In many places I had to "translate" the arguments into terms I could understand. In doing so, I may have lost something of the original intentions.