Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.15.2.2
Religious experience from the perspective of transcendental reflexion and its role towards the criticism of metaphysics and the arguments for the existence of God
Anto Pavlović
orcid.org/0000-0001-7462-2644
Stjepan Štivić
Abstract
Is it still philosophically sustainable to approach the traditional arguments for the existence of God in such a way that even the criticism questioning the metaphysics, and with that the very arguments, is not taken into account, as well as some form of religious experience opposing the criticism? This article discusses these questions, bringing and analyzing some insights that we believe can contribute to the shortcomings of such approach. We try to give our specific perspective, which we call transcendental-reflexive according to its philosophical foundation. We try to present how such perspective can give a different view on classical metaphysics and therefore on arguments for the existence of God. And also show that religious trait is essentially and intimately interwoven in the very grounds of spontaneous human life experience through co-experience of the Totality-the Foundation and of the All Meaning – which gives metaphysics as well as the traditional arguments, based on its categories a true content and strength towards criticism. Our analyses present also the specific nature of religious experience shown by the transcendental reflexion. It is not exclusively a privilege of people, who are religious, or who belong to areligious believe or group, it is a trait of people as human beings, related to their spiritual (rational) ontological structure.
Keywords
metaphysics; arguments for the existence of God; transcendental reflexion; life experience; religious experience
Hrčak ID:
184976
URI
Publication date:
20.7.2017.
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