PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

262 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Arguments against dualism There are widely accepted arguments against dualism. One such argument ...

ARGUMENTS (1) 263 a given time true also constrains what can be done in that world at and after that time.^33 Eliminative materi ...

264 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Annotated reading Donagan, Alan (1987) Choice: The Essential Element in Human Action, London: Ro ...

CHAPTER 13 Arguments concerning nonmonotheistic conceptions (2) Appeals to enlightenment experience Self-authentication Advaita ...

...

13 Arguments concerning nonmonotheistic conceptions (2) Appeals to enlightenment experience A ppeals to religious experience as ...

268 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS One who wishes to make a claim like 3 regarding some religious doctrine requires that some claim ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 269 T2 If nirvana experiences have occurred, that fact is evidence that We are composed at a time of momentary ele ...

270 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Two counterbalancing considerations It is sometimes suggested that those who have had religious ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 271 Self-authentication Religious experiences are often said to be self-authenticating or self- guaranteeing, so t ...

272 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Consider claims central to Advaita Vedanta, Jainism, and Theravada Buddhism: AV We are identical ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 273 what is said to be self-authenticated is We have existential independence or ontological security and are omni ...

274 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS If, however, any of these claims is true, it is true about everyone, not just about oneself; the ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 275 could have only by virtue of other features also had by that thing. In the case of a Roman coin, bearing the i ...

276 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS not seeking to give a psychological explanation of enlightenment experiences, but asking whether ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 277 second steps of the brief three-step arguments sketched early in this chapter. These principles can be express ...

278 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS quality or state X of S, then S’s having E is evidence that S is in state, or has quality, X. Ex ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 279 particularly reliable sort of experience, let us restrict the scope of introspection as follows: Person S is i ...

280 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS (P****) If a person S has an experience E which, if reliable, is a matter of S being introspecti ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 281 to outlast it in order to do so. A person could be indestructible just as a person could be stronger or smarte ...