Virtue Rationality and Religious Beliefs: with an Emphasis on Theory of Sosa

Virtue epistemology is a new recent approach to epistemology that gives to epistemic or intellectual virtues an important role. Having many similaritywith Externalist Reformed Epistemology, Virtue based view can be used as a new model in religious epistemology. We can define religious virtue and rel...

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Main Author: Saeedeh Fakhkhar Noghani
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Imam Sadiq University 2013-04-01
Series:پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین
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Online Access:https://prrj.isu.ac.ir/article_1418_7ba05ee363d559ea887774772dd35593.pdf
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Summary:Virtue epistemology is a new recent approach to epistemology that gives to epistemic or intellectual virtues an important role. Having many similaritywith Externalist Reformed Epistemology, Virtue based view can be used as a new model in religious epistemology. We can define religious virtue and religious perspective that produce true apt beliefs. These presuppositions lead to a new concept of rationality that can defend the rationality of religious beliefs.Therefore we can hold the possibility of religious knowledge against skepticism and its rationality against atheism.
ISSN:2228-6578
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