In this paper I carry out a philosophical inquiry that yields an account of religion as a personal disposition. This exercise is also expository, since I take my bearings from two thinkers, Thomas Aquinas and John Henry Newman. Regarding Aquinas, this means delineating his treatment of the virtue of ‘religio’ in the ‘Summa theologiae’; regarding Newman, it means attending to his description of the experience of being religious in ‘Grammar of Assent’. The resulting account captures both the “objective face” of being religious as well as its “subjective inscape,” thus depicting religion as a human perfection imperfectly realized in any given individual.

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综合阿奎那和纽曼对宗教的看法

在这篇论文中，我进行了一项哲学探究，将宗教视为一种个人倾向。这个练习也是说明性的，因为我从两位思想家，托马斯·阿奎那和约翰·亨利·纽曼那里得到了我的方向。关于阿奎那，这意味着在“神学概论”中描述他对“宗教”美德的处理；关于纽曼，这意味着注意他在“同意的语法”中对宗教体验的描述。由此产生的描述既捕捉到了宗教的“客观面貌”，也捕捉到了它的“主观内向”，从而将宗教描述为在任何特定个体中都未完全实现的人类完美。