Javad Shamsi; Jahangir Masoudi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , February 2018, , Pages 97-120
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Pascal's Wager is the best known of argument’s that Abulfotoh-Al-Razi Said “Tariqat-e Ehtiat”. In the Hadith-Books of the Shiite leaders, can be found some of the oldest versions of this argument. Some say the roots of pascal’s wager is back to this sources. This article is a ...
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Pascal's Wager is the best known of argument’s that Abulfotoh-Al-Razi Said “Tariqat-e Ehtiat”. In the Hadith-Books of the Shiite leaders, can be found some of the oldest versions of this argument. Some say the roots of pascal’s wager is back to this sources. This article is a comparative study between tow version, and say: The form of tow arguments is similar, but the content and purpose are different. This entry is from presuppositions. At first, in the judge, the forms of arguments was compared and tow in four positions subscriptions and differences were identified: the power of Reason in knowing of God, faith theory, the compatability of world and the hereafter and the dialecticaly or prooficaly.
Reza Akbari
Volume 1, Issue 1 , October 2012, , Pages 1-15
Abstract
Use theory of meaning is an important theory in the realm of philosophy of language. According to this theory meaning of an expression is nothing but its use in the language. Meaning is a social fact that appears in a language game. So there is no room for private language. In any forms of life there ...
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Use theory of meaning is an important theory in the realm of philosophy of language. According to this theory meaning of an expression is nothing but its use in the language. Meaning is a social fact that appears in a language game. So there is no room for private language. In any forms of life there are unwritten rules that the contributors of that form of life follow them and give the words meaning. Thus one expression may find different meanings in different contexts in a way that these meanings don’t have any essential common core but shaping a meaning spectrum. Use theory of meaning has a huge influence on two subjects which are the argumentation about the religious beliefs and religious pluralism. Using this theory one should accept that God has different meaning for a theist and an atheist. A theist regards this word as a word denoting a unique real being but an atheist regards this word as a universal word which may have real extension or not. So an atheist find himself justified in believing the need of argument for the existence of God. The advocates of religious pluralism like John Hick and Mark Heim by applying use theory of meaning find themselves justified in accepting religious pluralism as a true theory.
Hossein Mahmudi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , October 2012, , Pages 99-118
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A passionate faith is the like for every religious view. In Kierkegaard's view, this passionment depends on paradox and obtained only belief and practice to "absurd". Hence any objective approach decays any passionment and merely can have passionate faith with subjective approach. The one hand, Kierkegaard's ...
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A passionate faith is the like for every religious view. In Kierkegaard's view, this passionment depends on paradox and obtained only belief and practice to "absurd". Hence any objective approach decays any passionment and merely can have passionate faith with subjective approach. The one hand, Kierkegaard's basis of Idea is the belief in an incommensurabilism position and the other hand, volitionalism position to knowledge. The critiques included on this Kierkegaard’s view that known "the passion argument", including three critiques of Louis Pojman that based on his theory about religious epistemology. At the begging, this article will look briefly the special Louis Pojman’s view in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. In the next step, I will present the logical exposition of the Pojman’s religious epistemology and will see that rational framework of Pojman’s vision in the relationship between reason and faith is the weak-commensurabilism – against two theory: incommensurabilism and strong-commensurabilism; and so based on the soft-perspectivism – against two position: nonperspectivism and hard-perspectivism. In the final step we see the Pojman’s critique against “The passion argument”, and will know that this Kierkegaard’s idea faced serious epistemological criticism.
