Theological and Philosophical Biography and Dictionary

THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
BIOGRAPHY AND GLOSSARY

IDEA:

See Idea of the Good

IDEA OF THE GOOD:

* (Plato)

IDEAL:

See Ideal language philosophy and Ideal utilitarianism

IDEAL LANGUAGE:

See Ideal language philosophy

IDEAL LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY:

IDEAL UTILITARIANISM:

* (Moore)

IDEALISM:

See Absolute idealism; Objective idealism; Voluntaristic idealism; Subjective Idealism; Christian idealism; Classical idealism; Kantianism; Epistemological idealism; Kantianism; and Voluntarism

IDEAS:

See Abstract ideas and Ideas, general theory

IDEAS, GENERAL THEORY:

IDEATIONAL:

See Ideational theory of linguistic meaning

IDEATIONAL THEORY OF LINGUISTIC MEANING:

IDENTITY:

See Identity, law of; Identity of indiscernibles and Identity theory of mind

IDENTITY, LAW OF:

Any entity is what it is and is not something else.

IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES:

* (Leibniz)

IDENTITY THEORY OF MIND:

IDIOSYNCRASY:

See Idiosyncrasy platitude

IDIOSYNCRASY PLATITUDE:

* (Wisdom)

IDOLS:

See Idols of the mind

IDOLS OF THE MIND:

* (Bacon)

Ignatius of Antioch:

(d. 117) apostolic Father; martyred. He was condemned to fight wild beasts in Rome; wrote a series of letters on the way to his death, including one to Polycarp, which is his shortest epistle; in another epistle, Ignatius warned Polycarp and his congregation of the danger of a new theology, which was later named Docetism.

Ignatius of Loyola:

(1491-1556) Spanish soldier wounded in war; founded Society of Jesus (Jesuits).

Illingworth, John Richardson:

(1848-1915) English Rector; wrote 1. Divine Immanence, Divine Transcendence and 2. Personality Human and Divine; Absolute Idealism.

ILLOCUTIONARY:

See Illocutionary acts

ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS:

* (Austin)

IMMANENTISM:

God is directly concerned with the world. According to Radical Theology, God is immanent when man is responsibly involved in the world.

IMMORTALITY:

IMPERATIVE:

See Categorical imperative

IMPERATIVISM:

A non-cognitivist ethics

IMPERATIVIST:

See Imperativist ethics

IMPERATIVIST ETHICS:

* (Stevenson)

INCARNATION:

INCOMPATIBILISM:

A form of incompatibilist ethics *

INCOMPATIBILIST:

See Incompatibilism

INCOMPATIBILIST ETHICS:

See Incompatibilism

INDEFINABLE:

See Indefinable good

INDEFINABLE GOOD:

* (Moore)

INDETERMINACY:

See Uncertainty principle

INDETERMINACY PRINCIPLE:

see Uncertainty principle

INDETERMINISM:

see Libertarianism.

INDISCERNIBLES:

See Identity of indiscernibles

INDUCTION:

INDUCTIVE:

See Inductive reasoning; and Mill's inductive methods

INDUCTIVE METHOD:

See Mill's inductive methods

INDUCTIVE REASONING:

Reasoning from the particular to the general. Analytical method developed by Aristotle.

Inge, William Ralph:

(1860-1954) "the gloomy dean" of St. Paul's in London.

INNATE:

See Innate ideas

INNATE IDEAS:

Ideas not given in experience. You are born with them. All men possess innate ideas by virtue of their rational nature.

INSTRUMENTAL:

See Instrumental value

INSTRUMENTAL VALUE:

sometimes called Extrinsic Value. Value as a means to another end or value.

INSTRUMENTALISM:

A cognitivist ethics. See Experimentalism

INTENSIONALITY:

INTERACTIONISM:

The theory that mind and body are separate realities that mutually influence each other.

INTERNAL RELATIONS:

See Relations, internal or external

INTERSUBJECTIVITY:

INTRINSIC:

See Intrinsic value; and a priori, theory of the intrinsic

INTRINSIC A PRIORI, THEORY OF:

See A Priori, Theory of the Intrinsic.

INTRINSIC VALUE:

Value for its own sake, not as a means to an end or another value.

INTUITION:

INTUITIONISM:

stresses the immediacy of knowledge or the self-evident character of certain ideas. Seen in Platonism; Bergsonianism; Cartesianism; Axiological intuitionism and Deontological intuitionism

Irenaeus:

(c 130-200) Early Church Father; doctrine of recapitulation (Christ took human nature and His obedience restored what was lost through Adam's disobedience); wrote Against the Heresies.

Ironside, Henry Allen:

(1876-1951) Brethren; evangelist; author; pastor of Moody Memorial Church; popularized dispensationalism; method of preaching was explain, illustrate, apply.

Irving, Edward:

(1792-1834) Scottish Presbyterian pastor; assistant to Thomas Chalmers; popularized premillennialism; when he became a charismatic, he was asked to leave Church of Scotland; followers organized the Catholic Apostolic Church.

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