RT Article
T1 The importance of physicalism in the philosophy of religion
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 67
IS 3
SP 141
OP 156
A1 Angel, Leonard
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1821424549
AB First, some say that core physicalism is not anti-religion. I argue that this seems to be incorrect. Physical completeness is a core element of contemporary physicalism; (the evidence for physical completeness is strong); and physical completeness both logically and not strictly logically rejects many central religious views. Consequently, there is a sense in which core physicalism is, in an important way, anti-religion. Second, physical completeness positively supports one significant religious view; and physical completeness permits one to hold two others. The view that physical completeness supports states that there is no natural grounding of the ordinarily taken boundary of the human body. The two views that physical completeness permits one to hold state that a person can be contrastlessly blissful in an ongoing way, and that a person can experience something like light circulating through the ordinary body in an ongoing way. It is further maintained that physicalism allows religious systems to develop in new forms.
K1 Personal God
K1 Physical completeness
K1 Reductionism
K1 Boundaries
K1 Religions
K1 Physicalism
DO 10.1007/s11153-009-9223-z