For example, on Damascus Road, Saint Paul’s religious experience transformed his moral outlook. It would appear that all religious experiences demonstrate a revelation of truth, but one could argue that this does not indicate they are true. As Freud would argue that religious experiences are a way of externalising deep, repressed personal truths. In such a view, religious experiences are unverifiable and cannot be thought to prove the existence of God, as they are merely manifestations of the human subconsciousness. A transient experience short, and cannot be sustained for a long duration of time.
Christine Au Ms. LaBouff English 2, period 4 October 11, 2011 Wisdom In the novel, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, wisdom is what is not being taught but wisdom comes within when it’s experienced. He portrays that Wisdom cannot be taught but experienced. This is best demonstrated when Siddhartha learns that enlightenment cannot be reached through teachers because it cannot be taught, He also leaves the Buddha, someone who knows the enlightenment and experiences it firsthand, and when he leaves the Buddha because he realizes that wisdom cannot be communicated to other people. Siddhartha learns that enlightenment cannot be reached through teachers because it cannot be taught because enlightenment comes from within. Siddhartha begins looking
McCloskey contended against the three mystical verifications, which are the cosmological argument, the argument from design and the teleological argument. He called attention to the presence of evil on the planet that God made. He likewise called attention to that it is irrational to live by trust or faith. As indicated by McCloskey, confirmations do not essentially assume a fundamental part in the conviction of God. Page 62 of the article expresses that "most theists do not come to have faith in God as a premise for religious conviction, however come to religion as a consequence of different reasons and variables."
However, in the process of experience, human cannot feel the “feeling” using the concepts of that “feeling”, which is named Qualia. For example, although someone has learnt all the theories he should know to generate the sense of pain, he can’t predict the result when the sense of pain really happens. Therefore, Qualia cannot be simply identified by physical knowledge, because it is subjective, and will change with environment’s change. In order to make the argument more convictive, Frank Jackson designed an experiment to explain that Qualia is nonphysical, and
I note one weakness of his argument in regard to his observation if the inseparability of the Kung’s everyday life and their religion, compared to western societies. Katz states that for the Kung religion is an inseparable aspect of their everyday life. However even the term inseparable is inaccurate as it implies that there are two entities to be separated. There is no distinction between their spiritual beliefs and their everyday life. They are one and the same.
The jurors cannot base their certainty on concrete evidence as the play indicates that very few facts are absolute because (quote). Instead, they must make up their minds based on the apparent likelihood of various events and on their own personal beliefs. Rose portrays that when it is difficult to maintain certainty about one’s beliefs, in this case the innocence or guilt of the boy, doubt is a reasonable and intelligent state of mind. This is proven by the 4th Juror and the 11th Juror when they say they “ … now have reasonable doubt”. Each of the jurors has a different degree of certainty about the opinions they hold, but cannot be completely sure, as the 9th Juror points out “He doesn’t say the boy is not guilty.
Additionally, both believe in the spiritual practices such as meditation, yoga, concentration, and cultivation of states of mind, called mindfulness. While Hinduism and Buddhism share similarities, they also celebrate differences; Hinduism is not founded by any particular prophet and Buddhism was founded by Buddha and Buddhists do not believe in the existence of souls like Hindus, neither do they believe in the sacred texts of the Vedas or any other Hindu scripture. Refuge in the Buddha, the Sangha and Dhamma are the three fundamental requirements of the eight fold path while Hinduism offers many choices to its followers for
James Kellenberger discusses three contrasting popular philosophies for proving God’s existence in the second chapter of his collegiate publication, Introduction to Philosophy of Religion. Presenting and objectively criticizing/critiquing the Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological Arguments in a chronological fashion with relation to their respective eras of conception, I found the ideology and philosophical rationalizations throughout Proslogion and the Ontological Perspective to be that with which I most closely identify as far as the existence of a Supreme Being is concerned. The Ontological Argument is the credited work of Benedictine monk, Saint Anselm of eleventh century Canterbury, England in his most historically and philosophically significant work, Proslogion. Utilizing the notion of an a priori proof to formulate the basis and justification for his convictions, Anselm seeks to prove “That God truly exists (Kellenberger 35)” without reliance upon any of the five human senses. This train of thought cleverly warrants the evocation of faith, or belief without physical proof or empirical knowledge.
Furthermore, Ghazali gave the example of astronomical laws based on phenomena which occur only once in a thousand years. These are not arrived by personal observation, but by the knowledge of God and the Divine inspiration. Descartes, similarly, also doubted knowledge as learned since one cannot trust beliefs and knowledge from others. He also doubted the senses as the source of knowledge by arguing that the senses can be deceived. He supported this by giving the example of dreams, which seem like reality when one is experiencing them.
Later, Philosopher Hume came out with his version of the “tabula rasa” principle, the copy theory of ideas. The theory that suggests all of our ideas are either copies of sense impressions and rearrangements of copies of sense impressions. The idea of empiricism, we cannot have reason prior to having experience. Some people often choose to believe in what we cannot see, for example, love cannot be seen directly, we are only able to see the feelings and actions that demonstrate love. In the religious domain, it’s the same scenario the people believe in what they cannot see, yet