Experiência religiosa e crença em Deus: avaliação comparativa das abordagens de Alston e Plantinga

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2006

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This dissertation aims at analyzing the bearings between religious experience and the theistic beliefs epistemic credentials, on the basis of the works of William Alston (Perceiving God) and Alvin Plantinga (Warranted Christian Belief). After surveying the classical concepts of religious experience, one deeply examines the arguments of Alston and Plantinga for the theism and, after that, one criticizes and compares both authors. The comparative analysis suggests various complementary points that could lead to improvements in each others works. In particular, an alternative pointed out by McLeod an externalist epistemological holism looks quite promising in order to attain both a synthesis and an overriding of Alston and Plantinga. The crucial concepts of doxastic practice (Alston) and of cognitive apparatus (Plantinga) could be integrated in a structure of belief formation whose inputs would be the subjects experiences this considered both from individual and collective points of view. Under such scheme, religious or mystical experience would have a merely causal role in the formation of theistic beliefs; these beliefs would be credentialed according to the epistemological holism criteria: the commitment and the ordering-world power, among others.

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filosofia epistemology william alston alvin plantinga. religious experience alvin plantinga. epistemologia filosofia da religião philosophy of religion experiência religiosa william alston

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