Religious Studies 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sextus Empiricus, Belief, Religious Skepticism

• School: Western University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: Religious Studies 1022A/B
• Professor: Jonathan Marsh

Document Summary

It is a relation between mind and world. The standard platonic answer - for any given subject s, and for any given proposition , s knows that p (roughly) iff: Epistemic justification (s"s belief that p is epistemically justified) There is no knowledge of god (s), devils, witches, miracles or indeed of an supernatural agents or events. Option 1: deny that the truth condition has been satisfied. Option 2: deny that the belief condition has been satisfied. Option 3: deny that the epistemic justification condition has been satisfied. Two real pathways, is option 1 and option 3 (not justified or that the beliefs are false) Premise 1: in order for there to be any religious knowledge, some religious beliefs have to be epistemically justified. Premise 2: there aren"t any epistemically justified beliefs. When you get a controversial premise, like premise 2, you need another argument. This means that inquiry is very difficult --