caa a22 4500 386387028 CHVBK 20180307112101.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500019892 doi S0034412500019892 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500019892 Evans C. S. Department of Philosophy, St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesola, U.S.A. Is Kierkegaard an Irrationalist? Reason, Paradox, and Faith [Elektronische Daten] [C. S. Evans] If some philosophers had not existed, the history of philosophy would have to invent them. After all, what would the introduction to philosophy teacher do without good old Berkeley, the notorious denier of common sense, or Hume, the infamous sceptic. In some cases, in fact, philosophers have been invented by the history of philosophy. I don't mean to suggest that historians of philosophy have actually altered the past by bringing into being real flesh and blood philosophers. Rather, I mean to say that the textbook caricatures of famous philosophers are often a creation of the tradition, encrusted layers of hoary myths and legends which often hold the actual philosopher prisoner, the myths of Berkeley and Hume which I just alluded to being excellent examples. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 347-362 0034-4125 25:3<347 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019892 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500019892 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Evans C. S. Department of Philosophy, St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesola, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/3(1989-09), 347-362 0034-4125 25:3<347 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge