CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Altinpinar, Muhammet Selim |
|---|---|
| Title | Philozophical Conceptualization of Religious Understanding |
| Summary | Even though it is hard to define the concept of religion and to determine what religious belief consists of, the rational desire to legitimize this sort of belief necessarily involves an argumentative assessment of the content of religious belief itself. From this perspective, in my thesis, I aim to conceptualize the term religious understanding by drawing on the recent epistemology literature on the value of understanding. In the first chapter, explaining the distinctive characteristics of understanding, I argue that focusing on understanding rather than knowledge provides fertile perspectives. In the second chapter, building on the discussions in the first chapter, I give a philosophical account of religious understanding that is available to both religious and non-religious people. In the third chapter, I explore the possible benefits of religious understanding in different domains namely religious epistemology and philosophy of religion & theology. |
| Supervisor | Crane, Tim |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/altinpinar_muhammet.pdf |
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