PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

62 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION adherents of one or another religious tradition who either do not know their own tradition very well ...

DOCTRINE AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 63 the latter choice would have a mistaken and skewed view of American history, and one who th ...

64 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Questions for reflection 1 What do the religious texts quoted at the beginning of this chapter say ab ...

CHAPTER 6 Religious pluralism Religious plurality and religious pluralism The content of religious pluralism Some religion-relev ...

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6 Religious pluralism Religious plurality and religious pluralism R eligious plurality is simply a fact. There are religious tra ...

68 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 9 The reason for accepting religious pluralism is that it is the best explanation of central facts ab ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 69 Jahweh, the Father, Allah, etc. have an existence that depends on our minds and experiences. Put without ...

70 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Human concepts What should be said about RP depends on which of various emphases one has in mind. RP ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 71 much about the student’s new love interest. Mediumly Restrictive RP says that the only properties we can ...

72 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Which entails: (RPE*) There is something to which only logically generable properties may properly be ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 73 distinguishes between us and ultimate reality in a way that Advaita Vedanta and absolutist Mahayana Buddh ...

74 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 1 The only-one-religion-is-true line will require that much of very many religious traditions is fals ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 75 that X has N entails X is not the sort of thing to have Q or not to have Q. Property universalism is a ni ...

76 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 2 Nothing to which we can ascribe only maximally indeterminate properties can consistently be conceiv ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 77 It follows that: 3 No MIB can be said to be a cause of religious experience. The same thing holds if we t ...

78 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION property such that X having that property would explain there being Y. Here are two specifications of ...

RELIGIOUS PLURALISM 79 it offers a sham explanation. 2 RP cannot ascribe to the Real any property by virtue of which positing i ...

80 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Hick, John (1989) An Interpretation of Religion, New Haven: Yale University Press. +Sharma, Arvind (1 ...

PA RT I I Religious conceptions of ultimate reality ...