PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

282 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The argument stated specifically regarding our three enlightenment traditions^12 Consider our th ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 283 1 There are states, like being in pain, feeling happy, worrying about one’s health, and the like, where one’s ...

284 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Thus: C Enlightenment experiences are not evidence that the person who has them is in the state ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 285 says that you are in or having the quality that the associated religious tradition says that you have. A cavea ...

286 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS subject/content in structure – it includes “the making of distinctions” – and any such experienc ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 287 it in that context, quoting both European and Indian representatives of both positions. One position is propou ...

288 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS I think that I am something, so that after having reflected well and carefully examined all thin ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 289 among these are reflections concerning the nature of persons. When he thinks of triangles, bluebirds, or waffl ...

290 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS qualities they did not have and to lose qualities they did have; through such changes, substance ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 291 own substrate by its own existence alone... The nature of con- sciousness is to make something into an object ...

292 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS having arisen in him he at once sets to work to accomplish it. If, on the other hand, he were to ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 293 The gist of this passage is that experiences that we all have are properly reported by statements of the form ...

294 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Hume’s claim is that all his introspection yields is awareness of independent states – say, a st ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 295 houses, gates, etc.; “tree” for trunk, branches, foliage, etc.; in a cer- tain relation, but when we come to e ...

296 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS in, our introspective, meditative, or enlightenment experience is not something that is introspe ...

ARGUMENTS (2) 297 Hume takes persons to be, at a time, merely bundles of states. He takes introspection to reveal this, whereas ...

298 NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Questions for reflection 1 Construct and assess an argument for the claim Numinous experience is ...

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CHAPTER 14 Religion and morality Religious values and moral values Deterministic views Compatibilism and incompatibilism The Pri ...