نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
In the present work, while presenting the Aquinas/Calvin model as a
framework that demonstrates the epistemic value and rationality of
religious beliefs, an attempt is made to defend this model by relying
on the common intellectual framework of postmodernism. For this
purpose, the epistemic theory and religious epistemology of Alvin
Plantinga, who proposed the Aquinas/Calvin model, are briefly
analyzed. Then, the model is defended as a conditional proposition
that assumes the truth of religious beliefs in defending the rationality
of faith, drawing on postmodern epistemic characteristics. It seems
that the success of Plantinga's religious epistemology is more
plausible when considered within the postmodern epistemic
context. Regarding this period, it becomes clear that "rationality,"
unlike the common intellectual framework of the modern era where
it was equated with truth, loses this status. Postmodern thinkers,
relying on Kantian considerations regarding the distinction between
noumenon and phenomenon and the impossibility of accessing the
noumenon, as well as linguistic considerations from thinkers like
Wittgenstein regarding language uses, offered a different
understanding of rationality than that of the modern era. In such a
context, the Aquinas/Calvin model seeks to demonstrate the
rationality of faith. Understanding the prevalent notion of rationality
in postmodernism, on one hand, and Plantinga's alignment with postmodern philosophers in criticizing classical foundationalism, on
the other, are fundamental in affirming the success of this model.
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