Faith

Abstract

Abstract This chapter argues that we have practical grounds for thinking of ourselves as the agents of our thinking: it is an article of faith. It draws on Kant’s account of our moral faith in God to provide an account of the distinction between theoretical and practical grounds for assent and argues that we have practical grounds for assenting to the claim that we are the agents of our thinking because assent in the claim is a condition on self-conscious subjects settling questions about the propriety of their perspective on the world, something which we are required to do in virtue of being self-conscious.