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Propose a New Theory about Religious Language Problem

Toossi Saeidi, Massoud | 2013

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 44748 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Hosseini, Hassan
  7. Abstract:
  8. During last century, one of the most important philosophy of religious field issues, especially after 1950 was religious language. In other words, one of the most important and affective problems which could attract philosophers was religious language problem. This issue also has a history resume. Ask about religious language, at least could be seen by philosophers of Abrahamic religion like Islam and Christian. However, during last century due to philosophic attention to the language, religious language became for another time, an important problem. In this thesis, first of all, a geographic view of questions and answers will be caught by reviewing theories, from past until now. This would guide to a deep understanding about religious language problem. After this and by using guidelines brought, I try to propose a new theory which has fewer challenges due to others. One of the most important challenges of theories is that they are not acceptable for believers because of some inconveniency with inner characteristics of a religious society. So in evaluating different theories and also in proposing a new one, I pay more attention to this criterion. Anyway, in the first section I will talk about historic resume of the problem. Second section is belonged to a problem which is more essential than those discussed during historic resume. This problem is: Why religious language is meaningful? In the third section, I concentrate on theories that talk about How instead Why. And finally in the last section, I try to propose a new theory – a theory which has positive points of others and also has some creative ideas
  9. Keywords:
  10. Religion Language ; Meaningfulness ; Falsifiability ; Religious Experience ; Prophet

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