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On top of which mountain does one stand to judge religion? Debates from a Zimbabwean context

Journal for the Study of Religion
One of the most prominent characteristics of the phenomenology of religion is that the scholar of religion must desist from judging the phenomena under study. The scholar of religion is encouraged to refrain from passing judgement on the truth or ethical
Ezra Chitando, Nisbert Taisekwa Taringa, Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga   +2 more
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Consent and the Formation of Preferences

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Under ideal conditions, explicit consent and related actions usually change the moral facts in a distinctive way: they make something permissible that was previously impermissible. But they don't do this if the consent is coerced. And it seems they also don't do it if the preferences on which the consent is based were formed in particular ways:
Richard Pettigrew
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophical Phenomenology and Phenomenology of Religion: Making Methodology

Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy, 2008
In the article author reflects on the problem of making methodology of the phenomenology of religion under the influence of Husserl’s phenomenology. Phenomenology of religion based on some of the basic positions and distinctions that have characterized phenomenological philosophy, such as phenomenological reduction, intentionality, objective and non ...
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External‐World Skepticism and the New Ethics of Belief

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT External‐world skepticism challenges, among other things, the epistemic credentials of beliefs about other people. Some external‐world skeptics deny that I know my loved ones exist; some claim that my belief that my loved ones exist is epistemically impermissible. However, abandoning this belief would be highly unattractive.
James Fritz
wiley   +1 more source

Romantic Domination

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenology and Theology—Reflections on the Study of Religion

Zygon, 2000
The academic study of religious belief and practice is frequently taken to debunk the content of religion. This attitude impedes the science‐theology dialogue and causes believers to react defensively toward studies of religion.
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How Requests Create Reasons

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
wiley   +1 more source

The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
wiley   +1 more source

A Standing Invitation to the Gods: Philosophy of Religion and the Phenomenology of the Sacred

Religions
Does philosophy of religion, specifically, have anything to contribute to the cultural debate about the modern crisis of meaning, and particularly to attempts at retrieving a sense of enchantment beyond human construction?
Andreas Nordlander
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