RELG 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Philosophical Theology, Logical Positivism, Omnibenevolence
22 May 2019
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Le kant to point out that since metaphysical claims (about spirits, god, etc. ) are beyond an individual"s personal experience, they cannot be grasped by human understanding. Thus, if gods and angels exist, they cannot be meaningfully thought about or known. All metaphysical claims made by religions were not worth thinking about, because they could in no way lead to any firm and satisfactory knowledge (analytic) philosophy of religion. Tested the meaningfulness of religious beliefs by an empirical principle of verifiability. After the collapse of positivism, two general trends emerged in philosophy of religion: realism and non-realism. Realism (the majority view) argues that religious beliefs pertain to what really exists: hence the industry of (dis)proving god and problems of evil continued to persist. Non-realism (the minority view) argues that the subjecting religious beliefs to realist criteria misunderstands the nature of religious language. It"s not an issue of evidence and justification but. "language games" peculiar to a "form of life"
