PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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3 What sorts of religion are there? D ifferent religions offer differing diagnoses and cures. Given that criterion, there are a ...

24 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION To offer an even partial answer as to what sorts of religion there are, examples are crucial. Conside ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 25 loves, so we ought to love unselfishly. Human individuality is real, not illusory, and it is good not evil, ...

26 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Transition Vedanta, Jainism, and Theravada Buddhism at root are Indian religions. Each has its own sa ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 27 achieving enlightenment) and karma (that one’s right actions will be rewarded and one’s wrong actions will ...

28 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION provide a solution. An everlasting series of reincarnations would be the analogue to hell. Life is vi ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 29 understand Shankara. For if appearance depends on Reality, then appearance and Reality are such that appear ...

30 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION that God is infinite is not, as in monotheistic contexts, to say that God is omnipotent, omniscient, ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 31 minds, the food, doings, desires, the open and secret deeds of all liv- ing beings in the whole world; he t ...

32 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Misery only doth exist, none miserable. No doer is there; naught save the deed is found. Nirvana is, ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 33 Advaita Vedanta, the sickness is our ignorance of our being identical with Brahman and the cure is gaining ...

34 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION What must exist if the diagnoses and cures are correct can be represented as follows: Christianity: ...

SORTS OF RELIGION 35 6 Are the criteria offered for religions being of different sorts philosophically neutral and accurately ap ...

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CHAPTER 4 What sorts of religious experience are there? Structure and content Descriptions Criteria and their application Questi ...

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4 What sorts of religious experience are there? Structure and content T he interest of religious experiences for the philosophy ...

40 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION experiences are subject/content; the experience’s “owner” feels a certain way. The latter experiences ...

SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 41 of discerned difference in experiential kind.^3 Recognition of phenomenological differences, of ...