PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

362 GLOSSARY ethical theory A full-dress ethical theory offers answers to the questions When is moral reasoning appropriate (wha ...

GLOSSARY 363 necessary. logically possible A proposition is logically possible if and only if there are conditions under which i ...

364 GLOSSARY religious pluralism The view that no religious tradition is true and that every religious tradition produces morall ...

Selected great figures in the history of philosophy of religion Dates in medieval Indian philosophy are often, like those asteri ...

366 SELECTED GREAT FIGURES the topic of creation; in the Introduction, he lists twenty-five propositions derived from and summar ...

Notes Preface 1 The nonsense line was most famously defended by A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic (New York: Dover, 1952). ...

368 NOTES 2 Alvin Plantinga’s (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame) remark to the effect that good philosoph ...

NOTES 369 7 I Corinthians 15: 3, 4. 8 For Vedanta, the Vedas and Upanishads with the authoritative commentaries on these texts b ...

370 NOTES elicits worship. Happily, this sort of complexity can be avoided by using the notion of relevance conditions that rela ...

NOTES 371 6 Religious pluralism 1 (London: Macmillan, and New Haven: Yale University Press). 2 (Louisville: Westminster/John Kno ...

372 NOTES comprehensive and economical explanation, from a religious point of view, of the facts of the history of religions. A ...

NOTES 373 7 Monotheistic conceptions of ultimate reality 1 It is logically consistent with monotheism that there exist abstract ...

374 NOTES 10 These matters are relevant to arguments to be considered later. It is the case that: (A) A proof of a necessary tru ...

NOTES 375 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957), p. 256. The Sourcebook is probably still the most accessible source ...

376 NOTES 9 Arguments against monotheism 1 There may be times in between embodiments, for a given person or for all persons in a ...

NOTES 377 14 Or, minimally, did not act wrongly. 15 It is controversial whether there are any strictly unimaginably pointless ev ...

378 NOTES 29 Strictly, this is not accurate. Suppose that having fortitude is a good, that one can have this virtue only if one ...

NOTES 379 42 Simplicity here can be a matter of kinds of things, number of things, kinds of laws, number of laws, combinations o ...

380 NOTES 53 Claims about BIW starting at the level of persons (and stopping there as well since there can be non-human as well ...

NOTES 381 13 Medieval theories of relations is an interesting topic all by itself – one that would take us far afield from our c ...