Some time ago I proposed the below mentioned aesthetic argument for the existence of God. Revisiting my argument it seems to me that the only controversial premise is [4]. If one accepts this article as a proper defense of it, the argument goes through.
1. The sublime experience is a well-established type of experience (premise)
2. There is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of each well-established type of experience (premise)
3. There is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience (from 1, 2)
4. If there is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience, then that account is the experience of God (premise)
5. The phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is the experience of God (from 3, 4)
6. For any well-established type of experience, in the absence of defeaters, the phenomenologically maximally adequate account of that type of experience is veridical (premise)
7. In the absence of defeaters, the phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is veridical (from 1, 6)
8. There are no defeaters in the case of the sublime experience (premise)
9. The phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is veridical (from 7, 8)
10. The experience of God is veridical (from 5, 9)
11. God exists (from 10)
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maandag 30 november 2015
zondag 17 mei 2015
Friedrich Schiller on the sublime
"Beauty, under the shape of the divine Calypso, bewitched the virtuous son of Ulysses, and the power of her charms held him long a prisoner in her island. For long he believed he was obeying an immortal divinity, whilst he was only the slave of sense; but suddenly, an impression of the sublime ... seizes him; he remembers that he is called to a higher destiny - he throws himself into the waves, and is free."
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vrijdag 2 maart 2012
Aesthetical argument for the existence of God
In the third and final part of my philosophical project I intend to develop a new aesthetical argument for the existence of God. Here God is understood as the ultimate personal ground of reality. The argument's structure is presented below. It is not difficult to verify that the conclusion that God exists indeed follows logically from the premises. I shall start working on a detailed justification of each of these premises shortly after I have received my PhD in June this year.1. The sublime experience is a well-established type of experience (premise)
2. There is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of each well-established type of experience (premise)
3. There is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience (from 1, 2)
4. If there is a phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience, then that account is the experience of God (premise)
5. The phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is the experience of God (from 3, 4)
6. For any well-established type of experience, in the absence of defeaters, the phenomenologically maximally adequate account of that type of experience is veridical (premise)
7. In the absence of defeaters, the phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is veridical (from 1, 6)
8. There are no defeaters in the case of the sublime experience (premise)
9. The phenomenologically maximally adequate account of the sublime experience is veridical (from 7, 8)
10. The experience of God is veridical (from 5, 9)
11. God exists (from 10)
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aesthetics,
experience,
god,
phenomenology,
sublime,
veridicality
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