Questions tagged [philosophy-of-religion]
Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions regarding religion, including the nature and existence of God, the examination of religious experience, analysis of religious vocabulary and texts, and the relationship of religion and science. Note that term is somewhat ambiguous as questions regarding atheism, secular humanism and agnosticism is included in the discipline.
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If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what? [closed]
If we assume there is something of my mental life after death, what means, without authority, do we have to decide what? So, in effect, how do we decide about who's vision of an "afterlife" ...
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Is incest morally wrong if it is between only consenting adults, and there is no chance of offspring? [duplicate]
If two fully consenting adults engage in incest, and one or both of them are most definitely infertile, and neither of them are in any other romantic or sexual relationship requiring loyalty, is it ...
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Mixing of people and peace [closed]
I would like to know people's opinions on the following philosophical question.
Is It necessary for people belonging to different populations to mix in order to ensure peace among them?
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Free will and determinism [duplicate]
If God knows everything including the future, then we have no free will and if he doesn't, it’s a flaw of him and it's in contradiction with God's definition. How can we get away from this conflict?
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In the Doctrine of Virtue, does Kant accidentally encode a solution to the redemption problem from his theory of radical evil?
The set-up. Having identified original sin as an inversion of our maxims vs. their intended order of priority, Kant goes on to note that the nature of radical evil makes it empirically impossible to ...
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Belief, in 'divine madness'
Theia mania (Ancient Greek: θεία μανία) is a term used by Plato in his dialogue Phaedrus to describe a condition of divine madness (unusual behavior attributed to the intervention of a God).
Do ...
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Which philosophers, if any, have claimed that a limited amount of evil is possible? [closed]
In Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, there is a footnote somewhere that quotes an unidentified source as saying something like, "The Messiah will not come until the Tears of Esau have ceased ...
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What is a word that categories and subsumes religion, philosophy, and spirituality?
I saw the question What is the difference between philosophy and religion? which is interesting, but I am wondering what is a concept or term which categorizes/bundles all the meanings of philosophy, ...
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We know reality exists but can we prove what is real? [closed]
The common Athiest argument is "I base my life on facts and truth."
My stance is that no one wholly bases their life on facts and truths, because, at some point, facts and truths have a ...
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Will Artificial Intelligence doubt Atheism? [closed]
Artificial intelligence will know/see/talk with its maker. What acceptable answer will we give when it asks: “If I came into reality through you, into whose reality did you come?”
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Philosophy of religion
Buddhism is sometimes compared to solipsism.
Discussions on this topic can be found on the Internet. I do not understand why Buddhism is sometimes compared to solipsism.
As far as I know, in all ...
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Did Plato have a utilitarian view of religion?
I seem to remember while reading, from what I believe was the Republic, that Plato saw what could be interpreted a utilitarian role for Religion in society.
Am I misremembering? Not asking what he ...
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Is gravity a natural manifestation of universal egoism? [closed]
What bothers me is the possibility that egoism could be an intrinsic trait of existence in general.
So we have gravity whereby masses pull each other towards themselves.
An objection could be that ...
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Is there an ontological distinction between magic and the supernatural?
I'm an ardent physicalist with a belief in the importance of the partial reduction of theories to physicalism. I have on occasion had discussions with philosophers here who challenge the existence of ...
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Does Actus Purus (pure act) necessitate that God is his attributes / God has no real attributes
If Actus Purus is true, does this mean that God is his attributes (his essence is identical to his attributes) or that God has no real attributes (simply virtually predications of the one essence). If ...
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What do you think about this argument against classical theism?
someone formulated this argument:
Iff there's space, then God is omnipresent.
Iff there's universe, then there's space.
There was a state of affairs when there's no universe (There was a state of ...
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Can reincarnation be proved using a mixture of scientific reasoning and philosophical belief?
Let's go through the logic first. The following statements are suppositions that must be chronologically accepted.
Matter is neither created nor destroyed.
Matter is made up of atoms.
I am made up of ...
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Famous Philosophical Riddles/Problems throughout History
I am looking to learn more about famous philosophical riddles/problems throughout history.
For example - problems similar to:
Epicurean Problem of Evil
Buridan's Donkey
Pascal's Wager
Trolley Problem
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According to Classical Theists, is God limited by the laws of logic?
I was pondering this question while writing on whether or not God had the ability to create a best of all possible worlds. I hold that God is not limited by anything (a view among classical theists ...
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Nietzsche on balancing service to the creation of (or becoming) the Overman and living a life of ones own choosing?
So, I have been looking into Nietzsche.
To be honest, I have thought a lot about Nietzsche for the past 2 years, and I am unsure of what to make of the nature of this need to become the Overman. My ...
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"Prehistoric Science" Fallacy
Is there an accepted name for the kind of argument (or its refutation) that goes something like:
Our ancient texts speak of weapons that could annihilate the entire
world, and of flying saucers, ...
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How sound is the Avicennian argument from Contingency?
There are numerous variations of the argument from contingency that that are postulated in apologetics and philosophical speculation, however I stumbled upon an argument that is ascribed to my ...
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Is Zoroastrianism underappreciated when in relation to its influence of Early Greek Philosophy?
It would be nice to believe that the Early Greek Philosophers were entirely original in their ideas, though it would be rather simplistic to say that such a reality was true. When examining, let's ...
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Before claiming prophethood,X was famous for being truthful among his people,so that is one of the proof that he is a prophet?
some people who believe in the prophethood and divine inspiration of specific individuals ,use this argument,as one of the arguments,that proves that their believe in such individuals is legitimate
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In the presence of higher moral intelligence, is one obliged to follow its advice?
Whether from God, from a benign moral genius, or from a super AI focused on morality, if one has sufficient evidence that an entity has vastly superior moral reasoning to oneself, is one morally ...
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Do belief systems drive people to commit atrocities, or do people use belief systems as an excuse to commit atrocities?
Think of a random event of mass violence in history. If the perpetrators subscribed to a different religious or political belief system, would they have not committed it, because they had different ...
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Can people who deny naturalism consistently believe in science? [closed]
Naturalism is connected very much to Inductive reasoning. In science, if we see something happening again and again we generalize it into a law and we believe it as true. It will be only considered as ...
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According to trinitarians, why can't there be multiple human persons who share one human substance?
According to trinitarians, if there can be three divine persons within the Godhead who share one divine substance, why can't there be multiple human persons who share one human substance?
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Please complete this expression
Longtime ago I heard someone say this, I need to know the correct wording and source of this expression. The basic idea is expression of how human society has changed over the last few hundred years. ...
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What exactly is incoherent about an infinite regress of contingent universes?
After asking my chemistry teacher, about how a particular model of the Big Bang violates the Law of Conservation of Mass, he told a more coherent take on the Big Bang is to assume that there was a ...
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Absolute Divine Simplicity (ADS) and the Triune Godhead
Though apparent, the framework of the Triune Godhead appears logically incoherent in juxtaposition to the Absolute Divine Simplicity model.
Looking through the works of Thomas Aquinas, who is the most ...
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Eternal uncreated things besides God
There is a big debate in the Philosophy of Rellgion as to whether or not there are things that are uncreated eternal things besides God, like abstract objects.
Some say that claiming there are ...
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Is this a valid and sound argument?
ToE - Theory of Evolution
P1. The ToE is absurd in every way & no sound honest case has been or
can be made for it.
P2. The Biblical explanation for life on earth IS the only sound
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Kant’s claim “there are only three kinds of proof for the existence of God”
There are only three kinds of proof for the existence of God possible from speculative reason.
All paths on which one may set forth with this aim either begin from determinate experience and the ...
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How did it all happen? [closed]
Everything that believers are saying about WHY they pray is real as it is natural to humans to be afraid of unknown and grab that last straw if they do not see another solution to a problem......
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Problems with ontological arguments
In the ontological argument, Anselm assumes that "A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the ...
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If Actus Purus is true, how can God be eternally creator?
If the Actus Purus of God, the complete perfection, is true, if God has no potentiality, and He was always what He is, then God was a creator from eternity. But God could not be eternally creator if ...
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Are we still in God's mind?
I would like to share a reasoning.
We consider that an Engineer, before starting to build his project, draws up a construction plan.
In the case of a Deity that promises eternal life in paradise, we ...
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Atheist, Agnostic...Wait for more data?
I'm a scientist by heart: I believe that while the existence of God, however defined (or any metaphysic question, for that matter), is a tough one, it might not be completely inaccessible to science. ...
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Plato's influence on Christianity
Is Christianity influenced by some of Plato's ideas?
In particular, I thought that the notion in Christianity of God creating man in his own image was heavily reminiscent of Plato's forms, where God ...
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What does Spinoza mean by Acquiescentia in se ipso?
In Part V of Spinoza’s Ethics the pinnacle of human freedom and understanding is discussed as the viewpoint from eternal blessedness. How are we to characterize or interpret this doctrine of ...
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Is Plato's ideal world comparable to heaven?
Plato thought there was an ideal world where ideas live. Independently of people. These ideas throw a shadow on the material world we live in. By examining this material world we can get knowledge of ...
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Expanding the definition of "Pilgrimage"
According to Wikipedia, the definition of "Pilgrimage":
"Is a journey often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, ...
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If and what is the substantial difference between religion and esotericism?
I note that in the religious circles emphasis is often put to distinguish between religion and practices such as esotericism, occultism or magic. I've been often told that there was a very substantial ...
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Is it likely possible that creation of our world needs a lot of steps called 'evolution'? [closed]
Is it possible that creation of our world needs a lot of steps called 'evolution'? If it is like so would have been possible different scenarios for whatever we call a 'present' or 'living' on this ...
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Why does the word "atheism" exist?
Why does the word "atheism" exist? There is no such word for people who disbelieve in astrology or Santa Claus or dragons. So, why does the word exist? Is it because most societies today and ...
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A simple way to explain the argument from efficient causes for the existence of god according to Aquinas? [closed]
According to Aquinas but not originally, I'm not exactly sure whose theory it was that Aquinas reworded.
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Has there ever been a successful, philosophically defensible refutation of the Epicurean Paradox?
"God said it, I believe it, and that settles it", is the final refuge of faith-based rhetoric, not a viable philosophical position. Has any significant religious thinker of any stripe ...
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
Are there any publications in the field of Philosophy of Religion that have attempted to provide a formal ontological definition of the Christian God as portrayed by the doctrine of the Trinity?
Take ...
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Does this argument disprove immaterialism?
-Every observation we have analysed has a material cause.
-By inductive reasoning, all observations have materialistic causes.
-Hence, there are no immaterial causes and immaterialism doesn't exist.
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