Introduction Theology, Science, and Rational Ground

Abstract

From its very beginning, philosophy set for itself the challenge of pursuing specific sorts of answers to a seemingly trivial question: Why? This question admits of a wide range of answers, it seems. Yet in its infancy, philosophy set about putting this question with a certain kind of precision. Religion, myth, and tragedy all ask this kind of question and all give answers of specific kinds to this question. Philosophy, at its inception, distinguished itself from these by defining what the question means and what would count as an answer.