Unamuno's natural foundation for religious faith
- Autores: Alberto Oya Márquez
- Directores de la Tesis: Josep Lluís Prades Celma (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat de Girona ( España ) en 2020
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Vicente Sanfélix (presid.), Carla Carreras Planas (secret.), Nuno Venturinha (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Humanas, del Patrimonio y de la Cultura por la Universidad de Girona
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- Resumen
This doctoral dissertation is a collection of sixteen papers related to the question of the nature of religious faith and its justification. All these papers were motivated, implicitly or explicitly, by my interest in the question of whether the desirability of the kind of immortality announced by Christianity can somehow justify religious faith. Of the sixteen papers that comprise this doctoral dissertation, nine attempt to offer a coherent and systematic analysis of Miguel de Unamuno's notion of religious faith and the reasoning he offers in defense of it. The topics discussed in the other seven papers are: William James’s pragmatic argument for religious belief; the verifiability principle as it was formulated by the members of the Vienna Circle; logical positivism and Carnap’s confirmability on the meaningfulness of religious language; Ch. L. Stevenson’s metaethical emotivism; R. B. Braithwaite’s prescriptivist conception of religious faith; the debate on whether is it reasonable to believe that miracles occur; annihilationism and God’s victory over evil.
