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The. Enlightenment. In the 17th century the philosophy of religion was taken in new directions by René Descartes in France and John Locke in England. The significance of Descartes and Locke lay in the fact that they were self-confessedly philosophical innovators. In Descartes’s rationalism (the view that reason is the chief source of human ...
20. Feb. 2017 · In 2014, I published a proposal for a definition of “religion”. My goal was to offer a definition of this contentious term that would include Buddhism, Daoism, and other non-theistic forms of life widely considered religions in the contemporary world. That proposal suggested necessary and sufficient conditions for treating a form of life as a religious one. It was critiqued as too broad ...
If we spend some time trying to understand what Sellars means by this definition, we will be in a better position to understand the academic discipline of philosophy. First, Sellars emphasizes that philosophy’s goal is to understand a very wide range of topics—in fact, the widest possible range. That is to say, philosophers are committed to understanding everything insofar as it can be ...
16. Aug. 2017 · Then, the philosophy or religion is concerned not with information about God or various religious systems of belief, but with why we should be concerned with such things, if and how we can know about them, and how people think about them. There will be a little admixture here of things that are not exactly philosophy, but are somewhat related. I will be writing some about the psychology of ...
Philosophy of religion is sometimes divided into philosophy of religion proper and philosophical theology. This distinction reflects the unease of an earlier period in analytic philosophy, during which philosophers felt that reflection on religion was philosophically respectable only if it abstracted away from particular religions, focusing on ...
When Grace Jantzen describes feminist philosophy of religion in Companion Encyclopedia of Theology, she stresses that feminist philosophers of religion pay attention to the fact that God, as God is described within the theistic traditions, is very often understood to be a male person since the properties ascribed to God often is understood as “masculinist” (Coakley 1997, pp. 601–606).
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) focused on elements of the philosophy of religion for about half a century─from the mid-1750s, when he started teaching philosophy, until after his retirement from academia. Having been reared in a distinctively religious environment, he remained concerned about the place of religious belief in human thought and action.
