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Argument from Religious Experience
- Inductive Argument
- If something is experienced, it must exist
- People experience God
- God must exist
- This is not necessarily true - Subjective
(the experience can't be verified)
- Contingent truth - If the claims of people having religious
experiences are not correct, then the conclusion is not true
- Contingent truth - If the claims of people having religious
experiences are not correct, then the conclusion is not true
- Direct Awareness - You have experienced
it therefore you know it to be true
- Mental Illnesses
- Intoxication
- Senses decieved
- God must exist
- An Empiricist view
- Based on sense experience
- Based on sense experience
- People experience God
- As it is an inductive argument, it can never
be considered as proof but can be persuasive
- If something is experienced, it must exist
- Swinburne's Theory of Testimony and Credulity
- Testimony
- The account of the experience
- Believe the person unless there is a reason not to
- E.g - lying would be beneficial to them, they are a
known liar, they are mentally ill or they are intoxicated
- E.g - lying would be beneficial to them, they are a
known liar, they are mentally ill or they are intoxicated
- Believe the person unless there is a reason not to
- Can be very certain with a group experience
- The account of the experience
- Credulity
- Credibility
- The experience itself
- If 'x' seems present, 'x' is probably present
- Unless there is reason
not to believe them, again
- Unless there is reason
not to believe them, again
- If 'x' seems present, 'x' is probably present
- Credibility
- Testimony
- The Cumulative Argument
- The idea that if you put all of the arguments for the existence
of God together, it creates an argument that is total proof that God exists
- Teleological/Design Argument
- Cosmological Argument
- Ontological Argument (Existence)
- Moral Argument
- Religious Experience
- = Sound Argument
- = Sound Argument
- Religious Experience
- Moral Argument
- Ontological Argument (Existence)
- Cosmological Argument
- The counter for this argument is the Leaky Bucket argument
- The idea that all of these arguments on their own are full of
holes, putting them together doesn't fix the holes, it creates more
- The idea that all of these arguments on their own are full of
holes, putting them together doesn't fix the holes, it creates more
- The idea that if you put all of the arguments for the existence
of God together, it creates an argument that is total proof that God exists
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