General Flashcards
Guanillo
OA ‘promiscuous “
Modern versions of OA
Malcolm
Aristotles notion of human purpose
Humans ultimate purpose is to reach their eternal destiny with God
Cognitive ->
Non-cognitive ->
- > reveals a fact about the world
- > does not reveal a fact about the world
Swinburne defintion of a rel exp
“An experience that appears to the subject to be of God or some other supernatural being
Bliks
Convictions of how we look at the world which cannot be falsified
Eudiamonia
Fulfilment at the end of life
Hare
Rel statements non cognitive , reflect “bliks “
William james
Is Not That Powerfull
Ineffably
Noetic
Transiency
Passivity
Psalm 14
The fool says in his heart there is no God
Arête
Virtues of excellence
Ergon
Function
Consequences DO matter (killer at the door )
Mill
Ayer:
But the mystic , so far from being able to produce propositions that can be empirically verified …
..is unable to produce any intelligible propositions at all
Ayer :
Is a mystic admits that the object of his vision is something which cannot be described , then he must also admit that he is bound to talk nonsense when he describes it “
“But to say something transcends human understanding is to say that it is unintelligible and what is unintelligible cannot be significantly described “