PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

102 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY Advaita Vedanta Hinduism Three major philosophers of Vedantic persuasion, with generally sug ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 103 5 What Bimal sees does not have the nature and properties that Bimal sees it as having. The stan ...

104 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY concerning the nature of Brahman – that being whose existence does not depend on anything el ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 105 and superimposed on Brahman; reasoning based on Scripture must negate them both.^8 To thought an ...

106 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY the Atman theory (AT). According to the other of these theories, all that exists is Brahman ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 107 Manindra’s images. Suppose Manindra’s images are caused by another mind or spirit. Then all of p ...

108 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY in either of two quite different ways as follows, using a cat named “Oscar” as our sample ph ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 109 be concluded thus far is that analogies to perception and theories of perception seem not helpfu ...

110 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY In sum: numerically identical things undergo change of qualities; change of one thing (quali ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 111 Buddhism and persons: persons as bundles^26 A Buddhist text tells us that: Whether Buddhas arise ...

112 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY We are told here that there are constituents that are transitory. Further, there are collect ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 113 3 Simplicity Jain persons lack constituents. They have no elements and are incomposite. A Jain p ...

114 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY minuscule proportions. An atom was as small as anything can get, and was composed of no part ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 115 Some consequences 1 Action Suppose that, as we would ordinarily say, Jamie fires three shots at ...

116 CONCEPTIONS OF ULTIMATE REALITY a person is, and thus two quite different views of what it is for a person to be the same pe ...

NONMONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 117 Radhakrishnan, S. and Moore, C. A. (1952) A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton, NJ: Prin ...

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PART III Arguments concerning monotheistic conceptions ...

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CHAPTER 9 Arguments against monotheism Three questions The problem of evil Failed escapes The consistency issue The evidential i ...