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Wager Argument and Pragmatic Faith Perception

Year 2015, Issue: 62, 208 - 232, 15.12.2015

Abstract

Throughout history, the existence and nature of God has been the
subject of numerous philosophical discussions. It is certainly not possible
to say that there is a consensus in these discussions. In this regard, different
approaches (analyses) have resulted from the question “What kind of a
relationship is there between faith in God and evidence (reason)?” This
study, however, aims to answer the questions “Is it possible to have faith
in God without any epistemic/rational justification? Can the rightfulness of
faith in God be advocated through practical/pragmatic reasons without any
epistemic/rational basis to prove “what” God is?”

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  • • ______, “İnanç Ahlakı”, çev. Ferit Uslu, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
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  • • Nabe, Clyde, “The Morality of Religious Belief”, Religious Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, (1985).
  • • Özcan, Hanifi, “Birbirine Zıt İki Epistemolojik Yaklaşım: «Temelcilik» Ve «İmancılık» Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, C. 40, S. 1, (1999).
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  • • Peterson, Michael, Hasker, William vd., (ed) “İman ve Akıl”, çev. Nebi Mehdiyev, Din Felsefesi Seçme Metinler, çev. Rahim Acar, Nebi Mehdiyev vd., (İstanbul: Küre yay., 2013).
  • • Pihlström, Sami, “Pragmatic and Transcendental Arguments for Theism: A Critical Examination”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 51, No. 3, (2002).
  • • Plantinga, Alvin, “Teizm, Ateizm ve Rasyonalite”, çev. Ferhat Akdemir, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
  • • Pojman, Louis P., “Belief and Will”, Religious Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, (1978).
  • • Pojman, Louis P., Rea, Michael, (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008).
  • • Reçber, Mehmet Sait, “Plantinga ve Tanrı İnancının Temelselliği”, Felsefe Dünası, S. 39, (2004/1).
  • • ______, “Swinburne’ün Teslis Felsefesi”, İslâmiyât, C.3, S. 4, (2000).
  • • Suckiel, Ellen Kappy, Cennet Savunucusu: William James’in Din Felsefesi, çev. Celal Türer, (Ankara: Elis Yay., 2005).
  • • Swinburne, Richard , “The Christian Wager”, Religious Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, (1969).
  • • Thiselton, Anthony C., A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion, (Oxford: Oneworld Publication, 2002).
  • • Türer, Celal, William James’in Ahlak Anlayışı, (Ankara: Elis Yay., 2005).
  • • Uslu, Ferit, “İman, Akıl ve Bilgi İlişkisi”, Din Felsefesi, ed. Recep Kılıç, Mehmet Sait Reçber, (Grafiker Yay., Ankara, 2014).

BAHİS ARGÜMANI VE PRAGMATİK İMAN ANLAYIŞI

Year 2015, Issue: 62, 208 - 232, 15.12.2015

Abstract

Geçmişten bugüne Tanrı’nın varlığı ve mahiyeti pek çok felsefî
tartışmaya konu olmuştur. Elbette bu tartışmalarda bir görüş birliğinden
bahsetmek pek olanaklı görünmemektedir. Bu bağlamda, ‘Tanrı inancı
ile kanıt (akıl) arasında nasıl bir ilişki vardır?’ sorusu farklı yaklaşımların
(çözümlemelerin) ortaya çıkmasına neden olmuştur. Bu çalışma, ‘hiçbir
epistemik/aklî haklı-çıkarım olmaksızın Tanrı inancına sahip olmak
mümkün müdür? Tanrı’nın ‘ne’ olduğunu ortaya koyabilecek epistemik/aklî
bir zemin olmadan pratik/pragmatik nedenlerden hareketle Tanrı inancın
doğruluğu savunulabilir mi?’ sorularına cevap bulmayı hedeflemektedir.

References

  • • Adams, Robert M., “Moral Arguments for Thesitic Belief”, Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Kelly James Clark, (Toronto: Broadview Readings in Philosophy, 2008).
  • • Audi, Robert, “Belief, Faith, and Acceptance”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 63, No. 1/3, Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D. Z. Phillips, (2008).
  • • Brown, Geoffrey, “A Defence of Pascal’s Wager”, Religious Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, (1984).
  • • Bayrakdar, Mehmet, Pascal Oyunu -Hz. Ali, Gazzâlî ve Pascal’a Göre Âhirete Zar Atmak-, (İstanbul: İnsan Yay., 2014).
  • • Clifford, William K., “The Ethics of Belief”, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Ed. Louis P. Pojman, Michael Rea, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008).
  • • ______, “İnanç Ahlakı”, çev. Ferit Uslu, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
  • • Davis, Stephen T., “Pascal on Self-Caused Belief”, Religious Studies,Vol. 27, No. 1, (1991).
  • • ______, God, Reason and Theistic Proofs, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997).
  • • Doore, G. L., “William James and the Ethics of Belief”, Philosophy, Vol. 58, No. 225, (1983).
  • • Evans, C. Stephen, “Moral Arguments”, A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed.Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper, Philip L. Quinn, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
  • • ______,“Din Felsefesinde Eleştirel Diyalog”, çev. Nebi Mehdiyev, Din Felsefesi Seçme Metinler, ed. Michael Peterson, William Hasker vd., çev. Rahim Acar, Nebi Mehdiyev vd., (İstanbul: Küre yay., 2013).
  • • Harvey, Van A., “The Ethics of Belief and Two Conceptions of Christian Faith”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 63, No. 1/3, Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D. Z. Phillips (2008).
  • • Hick, John, Philosophy of Religion, (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963).
  • • ______, “Rational Theistic Belief without Proof”, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, ed. Louis P. Pojman, Michael Rea, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008).
  • • Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Ed. Tom L. Beauchamp, (Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
  • • İbn Rüşd, “Felsefe ve Kur’an’nın Uyumu”, çev. Nebi Mehdiyev, Din Felsefesi Seçme Metinler, ed. Michael Peterson, William Hasker vd., çev. Rahim Acar, Nebi Mehdiyev vd., (İstanbul: Küre yay., 2013).
  • • James, William, “İnanma İradesi”, çev. Celal Türer, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
  • • Jordan, Jeff, “Pragmatic Arguments and Belief”, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1996).
  • • Jordan, Jeffrey, “Pascal’s Wagers And James’s Will To Believe”, Philosophy of Religion, ed. William J. Wainwright, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
  • • Kelly, Thomas, “The Rationality of Belief and Some Other Propositional Attitudes”, Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 110, No. 2 (2002).
  • • Kuvancı, Cenan “William James’in Düşüncesinde İmanın Pragmatik Temelleri”, Felsefe Dünyası, S. 58, (2013).
  • • Nabe, Clyde, “The Morality of Religious Belief”, Religious Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, (1985).
  • • Özcan, Hanifi, “Birbirine Zıt İki Epistemolojik Yaklaşım: «Temelcilik» Ve «İmancılık» Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, C. 40, S. 1, (1999).
  • • Pascal, Blaise, “The Wager”, Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, Ed. Louis P. Pojman, Michael Rea, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008).
  • • ______, “Bahis”, çev. Metin Karabaşoğlu, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
  • • Penelhum, Terence, “Pascal’s Wager”, The Journal of Religion,Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul., 1964).
  • • Peterson, Michael, Hasker, William vd., (ed) “İman ve Akıl”, çev. Nebi Mehdiyev, Din Felsefesi Seçme Metinler, çev. Rahim Acar, Nebi Mehdiyev vd., (İstanbul: Küre yay., 2013).
  • • Pihlström, Sami, “Pragmatic and Transcendental Arguments for Theism: A Critical Examination”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 51, No. 3, (2002).
  • • Plantinga, Alvin, “Teizm, Ateizm ve Rasyonalite”, çev. Ferhat Akdemir, Din Felsefesine Dair Okumalar I, der. Recep Alpyağıl, (İstanbul: İz Yay., 2012).
  • • Pojman, Louis P., “Belief and Will”, Religious Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, (1978).
  • • Pojman, Louis P., Rea, Michael, (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2008).
  • • Reçber, Mehmet Sait, “Plantinga ve Tanrı İnancının Temelselliği”, Felsefe Dünası, S. 39, (2004/1).
  • • ______, “Swinburne’ün Teslis Felsefesi”, İslâmiyât, C.3, S. 4, (2000).
  • • Suckiel, Ellen Kappy, Cennet Savunucusu: William James’in Din Felsefesi, çev. Celal Türer, (Ankara: Elis Yay., 2005).
  • • Swinburne, Richard , “The Christian Wager”, Religious Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2, (1969).
  • • Thiselton, Anthony C., A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion, (Oxford: Oneworld Publication, 2002).
  • • Türer, Celal, William James’in Ahlak Anlayışı, (Ankara: Elis Yay., 2005).
  • • Uslu, Ferit, “İman, Akıl ve Bilgi İlişkisi”, Din Felsefesi, ed. Recep Kılıç, Mehmet Sait Reçber, (Grafiker Yay., Ankara, 2014).
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Philosophy
Journal Section Research Articles
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Eyüp Aktürk This is me

Publication Date December 15, 2015
Submission Date September 15, 2015
Published in Issue Year 2015 Issue: 62

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APA Aktürk, E. (2015). BAHİS ARGÜMANI VE PRAGMATİK İMAN ANLAYIŞI. Felsefe Dünyası(62), 208-232.