Religion and Multiculturalism Flashcards
What is John Hick’s view on Multiculturalism?
There is only one Ultimate Reality - The REAL
Each Religion is simply a different way in which the Real is experienced by humanity
No one Religion is better than any other at transforming lives
No one religion can claim to be more authentic than other religions
According to John Hick, how
can the World be experienced?
It can be experienced in 2 ways
THE PHENOMENAL –> The things as interpreted through human experience
RESULT: God, Yahweh, Vishnu are the real as interpreted by Humanity
THE NOUMENAL –> The thing as it really is not limited or interpreted by the senses
RESULT: The Ultimate Reality as it is
What is the aim of Religion according to John Hick?
To transform the human experience from “self-centeredness to Reality-centeredness”
Criticisms of John Hick’s view on Multiculturalism
ANSWER:
What is Joesph Runzo’s view on Religion?
Religious Relativism
There is no absolute or Objective Truth
One Religion can be true for one person or culture but not for another
For Runzo, the correctness of the Religion is relative to the worldview of its followers
Truth is determined by reference to culture
What is Alvin Plantinga’s view on exclusivism?
One set of religious beliefs is true, anything which contradicts this is false
Exclusivists take their religious views to be objectively true
Religious Differences are Real
Reformed Epistemology?
Answer
Reformed Epistomology?
Argued by Plantinga:
Attacked the notion that belief in God requires the right kind of evidence to be rational
Plantinga accepts that there is not sufficiently good evidence to believe iN gOD
Why is is belief in God Rational according to Plantinga?
Plantinga believes that belief in God is rational because if our belief in other minds is rational without propositional or physical evidence, then belief in God is also rational
Criticisms of Alvin Plantinga?
Great Pumpkin Objective –> Linus believes that each Halloween the Great Pumpkin will visit - he has faith in this
Therefore, Linus’ belief in God is no more rational than the belief in the Great Pumpkin
Counter Criticism to the Great Pumpkin Objective?
Plantinga observes that the sentence “T” was “brillig” is meaningless even if we cannot appeal to some general criteria of meaning
Likewise, Plantinga claims there is no reason to think that something similar will not be possible for beliefs
Plantinga’s claim is far stronger than the pumpkin objective because he recognizes the fact that humans don’t have a general criteria of what is meaningful
C.C.C to Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology?
Disobeys God’s Transcendence
Although we can appeal to some general criteria in most sentences, we cannot use the same criteria when it comes to God because God is transcendent
This is because God is beyond human understanding so we can’t apply our own criteria to something unknown
Therefore, Plantinga’s argument that religious beliefs can be rational is false because it assumes that Religion is like ordinary things
