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Bagehot on Belief
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Anatomizing the nature of belief, Walter Bagehot (1826-77) distinguishes between an emotional state of conviction and an intellectual act of assent. According to Bagehot, the various causes of our nonrational convictions can all be traced back to the vestiges of an undiscriminating childhood impulse to acquiesce before all states of consciousness. I argue that he also regards the intellectual activity of assent as emerging from that same original credulity once it has been chastened by the corrective shocks of experience. I further show that Bagehot's picture of conviction, assent, and our omnivorous original credulity shapes various of his social and political doctrines.
Keywords:
Bagehot
belief
emotion
sympathy
education
national character
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