PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

PREFACE 405

Neo-Platonism 91
nirguna 102
nirvana 32, 42, 43, 44, 48, 56, 60, 101,
111, 268–9, 284, 290
NN principle 93
non-composite endurers/non-endurers
249–52
non-reciprocal dependence 187, 189–90
non-ultimate reality 94–6
numerical identity 363

objectivity 15
Ontological Argument 174, 175–6,
179–80, 363; analogous arguments
177–8; exposition of 180; summary
of 178–9; without notion of
perfection 176–7
ontological independence 363
operational functional being 204–5,
206–7
orderliness 207
Otto, Rudolph 59

perception, causal theory of 106–7
perfection 176–7
permanence 292
person 363; Buddhist view of 247–52;
claims concerning 241; Complexity
View of 246–59; consistency in
argument 251–2; external critique of
bundle theory 248–9; importance of
accounts concerning 114–15;
internal critique of bundle theory
249–51; Jain view of 247, 248, 249;
Jain/Buddhist difference concerning
114, 116; non-substantival view of
246–7; as temporally scattered 113–
14
personal identity: exhaustive/exclusive
disjunction 246; general criteria 246
phenomenal reality 68–9
phenomenological description 215–16,
363
phenomenological difference 40
phenomenologies, and claims 274–6
philosophy: claims and assessment of 7;
defined 13; of science 351–2; task of
3–4
Plantinga, Alvin 174
Plato 281, 282
pleasure 25

possibility 315–16

potentiality 187–8

Principle of Alternative Possibilities

322, 338–9; acting not a matter of

causing actions 328–30; alleged

counterexamples 322–3;

compatibilist response 324–5;

counterexamples 331–3;

incompatibilist response 325–8;

reply to objections 323–4

probability 348–9

problem of evil 363

proof 169–71, 224; empirical 181;

purely conceptual 174

proper ultimate reason 209

properties 71–2; causal 78; happy 72–3;

as maximally indeterminate 75–7

property dualism 243–4, 263

property universalism 74–5

propositions 346, 363; logically

contingent 195, 197, 198–9; modal

93; types of 171

Pure Land Buddhism 101

qualitative identity 363

qualityless Brahman see Brahman

Ramanuja 29, 101, 105, 184, 205–7,

290–3, 296

rationality 358

Real, the: human concepts 70–4;

natures or essences 74–7

reality 28–9, 30

reason 7, 363

reductionism 107–9

reflexive relations 184–5

reincarnation 26–8, 112, 123–4, 252,

363

religion 7; arguments offered within

xv; claims and assessment of 13–14;

definitions of 16–17; diagnoses and

cures 4, 17, 23, 32–4, 54; different

sorts of 23–4, 34; as diverse 61–3;

functional/pragmatic 16; as identical

57–61; notions of 3; philosophy of

4–5, 7, 17–18; substantial/doctrinal

16; task of 4; tradition in 54–5; and

truth-claims 56–7

religious belief: and blame 358;

epistemic status of 349–50