naa a22 4500 510753035 CHVBK 20180411083111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-012-0305-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-012-0305-5 Spiegel James Taylor University, 236 West Reade Ave., 46989, Upland, IN, USA aut Open-mindedness and Religious Devotion [Elektronische Daten] [James Spiegel] To be open-minded is to be willing to revise or entertain doubts about one's beliefs. Commonly regarded as an intellectual virtue, and often too as a moral virtue, open-mindedness is a trait that is generally desirable for a person to have. However, in the major theistic traditions, absolute commitment to one's religious beliefs is regarded as virtuous or ideal. But one cannot be completely resolved about an issue and at the same time be open to revising one's beliefs about it. It appears, then, that religious devotion is inconsistent with open-mindedness. The more religiously devout a person is, the more firmly she will hold to her convictions. And the stronger her belief commitments, the less open-minded she will be regarding these beliefs. So there appears to be a paradox here, where from the standpoint of religious devotion, it is virtuous to display an intellectual vice, namely closed-mindedness. I discuss this problem and explore some potential routes of escape from the paradox. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Open-minded nationallicence Humility nationallicence Virtue nationallicence Devotion nationallicence Descartes nationallicence Kierkegaard nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 143-158 0038-1527 52:1<143 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0305-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0305-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Spiegel James Taylor University, 236 West Reade Ave., 46989, Upland, IN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/1(2013-04-01), 143-158 0038-1527 52:1<143 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer