Rediscovering the Aesthetic Argument: A Phenomenological Presentation
The aesthetic argument for the existence of God is sometimes seen as a weaker younger cousin to the more powerful moral argument, but it may in fact be the more formidable of the two. The phenomenological aesthetic argument, presented here, brackets the question of beauty's objectivity. It argu...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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Philosophia Christi
Year: 2021, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 291-312 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CD Christianity and Culture |
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| Summary: | The aesthetic argument for the existence of God is sometimes seen as a weaker younger cousin to the more powerful moral argument, but it may in fact be the more formidable of the two. The phenomenological aesthetic argument, presented here, brackets the question of beauty's objectivity. It argues that various aspects of the raw data of the human aesthetic sense - specifically, our perceptions of human, natural, artistic, and abstract beauty - are highly unlikely to have developed on naturalism but are unsurprising given theism. These facets of aesthetic experience therefore ground a substantial argument against the merely Darwinian paradigm. |
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| ISSN: | 1529-1634 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/pc202123225 |