Chapter On Religious Hypothesis

According to Professor Ryszard Kleszcz, the analytical philosophy of religion deals primarily with the problems of meaning and justification of religious beliefs. The paper shows two solutions to these problems. The first one was presented by Józef Maria Bocheński in his The Logic of Religion. On th...

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description According to Professor Ryszard Kleszcz, the analytical philosophy of religion deals primarily with the problems of meaning and justification of religious beliefs. The paper shows two solutions to these problems. The first one was presented by Józef Maria Bocheński in his The Logic of Religion. On the basis of this approach, faith is an act in which a sentence with a certain content is considered true. This sentence is a hypothesis explaining all or part of an individual’s experience. Kleszcz agrees with such an answer. A similar way of perceiving religion can also be found in the papers by Jacek Jadacki and Bogusław Wolniewicz. A completely different concept of religion is presented in the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. According to Wittgenstein, religious beliefs are nonsense. They are meaningless and have no content so there is no justification in this case. Uttering such nonsensical sentences, however, indicates a certain tendency that is inherent in human nature, i.e. a tendency to cross the borders of language and thus the borders of the world. Wittgenstein claims that religion is the attitude of the metaphysical subject towards the world. This attitude makes the world cease to be merely a mixture of facts and begin to appear as a meaningful whole.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1553692025-03-07T14:10:45Z Chapter On Religious Hypothesis Dziobkowski, Bogdan According to Professor Ryszard Kleszcz, the analytical philosophy of religion deals primarily with the problems of meaning and justification of religious beliefs. The paper shows two solutions to these problems. The first one was presented by Józef Maria Bocheński in his The Logic of Religion. On the basis of this approach, faith is an act in which a sentence with a certain content is considered true. This sentence is a hypothesis explaining all or part of an individual’s experience. Kleszcz agrees with such an answer. A similar way of perceiving religion can also be found in the papers by Jacek Jadacki and Bogusław Wolniewicz. A completely different concept of religion is presented in the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. According to Wittgenstein, religious beliefs are nonsense. They are meaningless and have no content so there is no justification in this case. Uttering such nonsensical sentences, however, indicates a certain tendency that is inherent in human nature, i.e. a tendency to cross the borders of language and thus the borders of the world. Wittgenstein claims that religion is the attitude of the metaphysical subject towards the world. This attitude makes the world cease to be merely a mixture of facts and begin to appear as a meaningful whole. 2025-03-07T14:10:43Z 2025-03-07T14:10:43Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788382200355_794 9788382200355 9788382200348 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155369 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/213 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8220-034-8.19 According to Professor Ryszard Kleszcz, the analytical philosophy of religion deals primarily with the problems of meaning and justification of religious beliefs. The paper shows two solutions to these problems. The first one was presented by Józef Maria Bocheński in his The Logic of Religion. On the basis of this approach, faith is an act in which a sentence with a certain content is considered true. This sentence is a hypothesis explaining all or part of an individual’s experience. Kleszcz agrees with such an answer. A similar way of perceiving religion can also be found in the papers by Jacek Jadacki and Bogusław Wolniewicz. A completely different concept of religion is presented in the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. According to Wittgenstein, religious beliefs are nonsense. They are meaningless and have no content so there is no justification in this case. Uttering such nonsensical sentences, however, indicates a certain tendency that is inherent in human nature, i.e. a tendency to cross the borders of language and thus the borders of the world. Wittgenstein claims that religion is the attitude of the metaphysical subject towards the world. This attitude makes the world cease to be merely a mixture of facts and begin to appear as a meaningful whole. 10.18778/8220-034-8.19 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788382200355 9788382200348 291-301 open access
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