The Range of Reason

The Range of Reason is a 1952 book of essays by the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain.

While he acknowledges that sense-data plays an important part in human knowledge of the world, he rejects the thesis that the real does not exist or cannot be known, because he believes that the intellect can transcend sensory experience to perceive the noumenal world.

[1] Maritain here supports the theory that the aesthetic carries a "hidden truth", as an expression of the fundamental individuality of the artist.

[4] Practical atheists prefer to be seen as adherents to religious faith for selfish reasons, yet deny the gospels by lacking concern for the well-being of others.

Thus, the pseudo atheist actually denies an entity that is self-evidently nonexistent or that necessitates negative consequences for nature or humanity.