Timeline for Can belief in God be grounded in (and justified by) personal experience rather than philosophical argumentation?
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| Apr 7 at 0:41 | comment | added | Alistair Riddoch | @Mark No thank you to the videos. No thank you to links elsewhere. I thought the question simple... "Where in your personal case, did the name 'God' come from? Did you hear itfrom God? See it wrote by God? Or only have the name suggested to you by others, and then you chose to relate your experience to that suggestion by others, creating the "experience-God" link/relationship/claim". I am not asking what others say. If you had personal experience, speak for yourself. | |
| Apr 7 at 0:38 | comment | added | user66156 | @AlistairRiddoch Another example: 3. | |
| Apr 7 at 0:28 | comment | added | user66156 | @AlistairRiddoch I presume there must be some minimal degree of interpretation. Here are two examples you can reflect upon: 1, 2. | |
| Apr 6 at 23:57 | comment | added | Alistair Riddoch | @Mark In your personal experiences... where did the name "God" come from? Did an experience provide that name "God" from within the experience? Or do you have the name and concept "God" by suggestion from another? What is the source of the linking of the two... the experiences, to the named deity, not a nameless "something"? | |
| Apr 6 at 22:46 | comment | added | Johan | This is an interesting question which maybe should be reformulated. Clearly it is conceivable for one way to get closer from god to be preferable over the other. The interesting part, which has not been addressed yet, is the dialectic of those two points of view as it took place in the history of christianism (and likely many other religions). See for example Fides et ratio or the controversy between Przywara and Karl Barth. Maybe I'll write an answer, but I fear the scope of the question is a bit wide as is. | |
| Apr 6 at 21:44 | answer | added | Marco Ocram | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 6 at 21:34 | answer | added | NotThatGuy | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 6 at 20:59 | comment | added | SystemTheory | Philosophers are intellectuals who attempt to map their own knowledge-attributes onto God and then argue God or not-God as an attribute of existence as the case may be. In my case as a mystic or gnostic I wonder if the womb felt like eternal heaven or what we depict as Communion with God and my body generating some mode of self-other, madonna-child, or I-thou relationship. Atheists like Sigmund Freud translate modes of subjective experience into concepts such as Primary Narcissism. But that only puts an intellectual frame on a non-verbal experience. My Mom shot me into the world like a cannon! | |
| Apr 6 at 19:15 | comment | added | user66156 | @Mikhail The scope in that one is broader, and this question also includes a contrast between experience and philosophical argumentation the other question lacks. | |
| Apr 6 at 19:14 | comment | added | Baby_philosopher | What about this one? philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/110745/… | |
| Apr 6 at 19:10 | comment | added | user66156 | @Mikhail this question is not about intersubjective consensus. | |
| Apr 6 at 19:07 | comment | added | Baby_philosopher | How is this different from philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/111268/73554? Since I do empathize with having unanswered questions in your head though, allow me to say that any answers to your question will result in the same kind of stalemate you complain about. Can you truly, absolutely, certainly justify anything? Perhaps not. But this includes your belief that God can be grounded by (which is just another way of saying justified by) personal experience | |
| Apr 6 at 19:05 | answer | added | ac15 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 6 at 19:04 | answer | added | Jo Wehler | timeline score: -1 | |
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