Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion

Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

Kant’s Philosophy of Religion and the Challenges of Moral Commitment

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

ترجمه، شرح و نقد رویکرد تحلیلی در فلسفه دین براساس کتاب: philosophy of religion ed. william j. wainwright oxford 2005

زبان دین ازاهمّ موضوعات الهیات و فلسفه دین است. مسئله زبان دین در الهیات، کلام، فلسفه دین و زبان دین ورزان، همواره ناظر و معطوف به متون مقدس ادیان می باشد، و از این روی در این پایان نامه کوشیده شده است که مسایل بنیادینِ زبان دین از رهگذر معرفی یکی از متون مربوط به فلسفه تحلیلی دین به صورت برجسته و نمایان گردد. در شرح متن تأکید بر مسئله زبان دین است که این موضوع از منظر دو فیلسوف بزرگِ قرن بیستم ؛ ...

Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy and Religion

a challenge to the philosophy of religion

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The God of Religion and the God of Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY Ever since the time of Pascal men have feared that the 'God' worshipped by believers and the 'God' contemplated by philosophers were somehow different. The former was personal, historically active, slow to anger and plentiful in mercy: the latter was dubiously able to be described in personal terms at all, and infinite in such a way as to baffle the imagination. The 'God' of the form...