Religious experience
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- Religious Experience
- William James
- Argues that we are studying the very heart of religion.
- Could be a psychological or physiological explanation to religious experience, but not fully
- Four main characteristics of a religious experience:
- 1) ineffability- inexplainable
- Argues that we are studying the very heart of religion.
- Richard Swinburne
- Principle of credulity
- If someone believes that they have experienced something they probably have
- Principle of testimony
- All else being equal, we believe the testimony of others.
- Unless someone is a liar, they are probably true.
- All else being equal, we believe the testimony of others.
- Criticisms of the principles
- If you aren't religious it's harder to believe
- Likely for someone to lie and it's easier to doubt something that's unheard of
- Principle of credulity
- Brian Davies
- God could somehow be false and is possibly an existing being, even if it's possible to be mistaken with a claim based on experience.
- Existence cannot be reasonable grounds for existence
- We could be mistaken eg hallucination or insanity
- Bertrand Russell
- 'from a scientific point of view, we can make no distinction between a man who eats little and sees heavem and the man who drinks too much and sees snakes'
- William James
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