PHIL 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anti-Realism
Document Summary
Revealed theology: what can be known of the divine through sacred texts and stories. Rational theology: what can be known of the divine through reason. Piety: proper relation to the divine, ritual, the sacred and profane, duties, Argument: wwzd - what would zues do zeus (who is the best of the gods) prosecuted his father kronos. If it"s good enough for zeus, it"s good enough for us. Definition is too narrow, and therefore it ignores other things that belong to piety. Argument is a problem because we don"t know if the stories are true or not a conclusion is only reliable as the reasons or evidence it"s based on. Piety is what the god(s) find pleasing. Improves on the first definition, because it is general enough to capture all the instances of piety. One and the same thing would be pious and impious. In monotheisms, god can approve of something on one occasion and disapprove on another.
