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- 1Religious language key philosophers (7)catagories-(16)Philosophers1. Plotinus, Pseudo Dionysius,Moses Mamonodies Brain Davis
2. Vienna circle,.A.j Ayer,.Hick
3.Ticllich
4,Bultman
5.Aquinas
6. Popper,flew, R.M Hare.
7. Wittgenstein, D. Z Philips - 21. why did the via negative argue that talking in the positive about God is not appropriate?Plotinus "NO LANGUAGE STATEMENT MADE OF GOD ONE CAN MAKE" -"god is ineffable.
Dionysius -God is above our earthly limitations and to use earthly language is to anthropomorphise God.
Moses-burning bush "GOD EXISTS" - 3S+W Via NegativaS- Respectful
s-Avoides anthropomorphising God
w-complicated, still infers information about God.
w-how can people preach about God/spread his message if they can't say anything directly. - 4Key ideas from the verification P.Philosophy should be the analysis of language. (logical positivist)
- fOR a statment to be MEANINGFUL it must past two criteria (should be able to empirically verify it or it should be a tautology) - 5Why does the vp argue religious language is meaninglessBecause it is not possible to verify the existence of god therefore any statement about God becomes meaningless as it fails the VP's criteria.
- 62 strengths + 2 weaknesses of the Verification Principle1) makes almost everything meaningless i.e. Art, emotions, Opinions that don't have direct empirical evidence.
2.) Statements can still hold meaning the VP Is to stringent and rigid with what it thinks meaningful is for many for something to be meaningful it must hold some truth or emotional meaning. Unrealistic time consuming way to use language
Strengths
1.Relies on empirical evidence.
2. - 7A.J AYER- how does he differ from the vienna circle.PROVIDES A DEFF Of meaningful “statements that expresses a proposition of the truth/falsehood of which can be verified –in theory-through experience”.
meaningless:"not factually significant"
accepted that some statements may not be fact/sig but may still be emotionally sig.
STATEMENTS CAN BE MEANINGFUL IF THEY CAN BE VERIFIED IN PRINCIPLE - 8Ayer+RL=meaningless!!
“No statement which refers to a ‘reality’ transcending the limits of all possible sense experience can possibly have any literal significance.”. - 9Hick?God and all statements about God can be verified in the afterlife! he called this eschatological verification.
- 10Symbol. what are the 4 things a symbol can do?1.-they point to something beyond themselves.
2.-They participate in that to which they point to
3.-They open up levels of reality which are usually closed to us
4.-They open up dimensions of the soul
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