This paper will consist of a summary of John Hick’s presentation for the argument of religious experience as well as Michael Scriven’s objection through the argument of atheism. In particular‚ I will analyze Hick’s stance on the traditional theistic proofs and how he views religious experience to be a stronger example of evidence that supports the existence of God. Then‚ I will analyze how Scriven resists the argument of religious experiences as irrational and how atheism is used as a response‚ or
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basic fundamental core of atheism. There are many things about Atheism that are positive and negative. For example‚ the positive atheism is the clear statement that gods do not exist. Furthermore‚ the negative atheism includes all other forms of non-theism. According to this anyone who is not a theist is either a negative or a positive atheist. Smart he argues that “sometimes a person who is really an atheist may describe herself‚ even passionately agnostic because of an unreasonable generalized philosophical
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Explain Feuerbach’s teaching on Religion Feuerbach began his philosophical career as a Hegelian but quickly came to see the shortcomings of this philosophy. He argued that Hegel’s system was a mere ‘ghost of theology’ and swiftly moved on to write his own works. His most famous being ‘The Essence of Christianity’ and ‘The Essence of Religion’. Feuerbach was a modernist and in his major works he tends to reduce religion to its existential‚ sociological and anthropological origins. Feuerbach states
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feels that as far as proofs serve theists‚ the three most commonly accepted are the cosmological‚ the teleological‚ and the argument from design. It is important to note that he considers these arguments as reasons to "move ordinary theists to their theism." (McCloskey 1968) This is not necessary the case and contradicts the former statement that most theists do not hold to these proofs. As such‚ the attempt to dispute these arguments as a reason not to believe in God is almost not worth attempting
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Atheism Outline * Atheism – the critique and denial of the major claims of all varieties of theism‚ which banners the belief that “all the heavens and the earth and all that they contain owe their existence and continuance in existence to the wisdom and will of a supreme‚ self-consistent‚ omnipotent‚ omniscient‚ righteous‚ and benevolent being who is distinct from‚ and independent of‚ what he has created.” * Atheistic Principles: a. Philosophical atheists reject the assumption of
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Philosophical Anthropology (human nature). Philosophical Theology is the part of philosophy of religion and it develops and utilizes ways to understand doctrines or theological concepts through philosophy. Spiritual Theology consists of these views of God: 1. Theism-an infinite God is beyond and in the universe‚ 2. Atheism-God does not exist beyond the universe or in it‚ 3. Pantheism-God is the universe‚ 4. Panentheism-God is in the universe‚ 5. Deism-God is beyond the universe but not in it‚ 6. Finite godism-a
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that need. Lewis points out that earthly experience does not satisfy the human craving for "joy" and that only God could fit the bill; humans cannot know to yearn for something if it does not exist.[5] After providing reasons for his conversion to theism‚ Lewis goes over rival conceptions of God to Christianity. Pantheism‚ he argues‚ is incoherent‚ and atheism too simple. Eventually he arrives at Jesus Christ‚ and invokes a well-known argument now known as the "Lewis trilemma". Lewis‚ arguing that
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of a Transcendent God. The belief is there is no Lord of the universe unless it is each of us. The new age religion has also borrowed from naturalism the hope of evolutionary change for Humanity. In comparison to theism and naturalism‚ the New Age places a high value on a person. Theism grounds this into each person being made in the image of God while The New Age consciousness continues to maintain the number of individuals as all human beings are alike in their everyday Humanity if one is valuable
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social sciences‚ philosophy and even literature. In all of these fields the dictionary definition of positivism as ‘. . . a system recognizing only that which can be scientifically verified or logically proved‚ and therefore rejecting metaphysics and theism’ (Oxford‚ 1989: pp. 385-386) remains broadly true of most of its uses‚ though it does little to reveal the subtle distinctions of use of the word positivism in each of these disciplines. For instance‚ legal positivism is ‘. . . a view which‚ in contrast
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and policy matters as the pertained to questions of lasting value. “He infused an interrelated worldview of truth‚ moral ethics‚ natural law‚ literary excellence‚ reason‚ science‚ individual liberty‚ personal responsibility and virtue‚ and Christian theism. (Evils of statism)” According to him we learn more about God through the teachings of natural law than from the universe in general. Natural Law shows that the author of the universe believes in fair play‚ courage‚ selflessness‚ truth‚ honesty‚ and
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