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1. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Atheism:-A[PDF] Atheism: A Philosophical Justification | Semantic Scholar

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   Mar 1, 1990 · From this standpoint an atheist would simply be someone without a belief in God, not necessarily someone who believes that God does not exist. According to its Greek roots, then, atheism is a negative view, characterized by the absence of belief in God.

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3. assets.cambridge.org › 97805216 › 03676the cambridge companion to ATHEISM

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   ATHEISM. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, eighteen of the world’s leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and modern, defense, and impli-cations. The topic is examined in terms of its implications for a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, religion, feminism ...

4. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 37199Defining ‘Atheism’ | The Oxford Handbook of Atheism | Oxford ...

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   This chapter therefore surveys the sheer variety of ways of defining ‘atheism’, before outlining the pressing need for a generally agreed-upon usage in the growing—and, thus far, Babel-like—field of scholarship on atheism.

5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › atheism-agnosticismAtheism and Agnosticism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Aug 2, 2017 · This generates the following definition: atheism is the psychological state of lacking the belief that God exists. In philosophy, however, and more specifically in the philosophy of religion, the term “atheism” is standardly used to refer to the proposition that God does not exist (or, more broadly, to the proposition that there are no gods).

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   Baggini is right to shift the discussion of atheism away from God’s 13 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion existence toward the basic character of reality. But identifying atheism with naturalism or physicalism is not the way to do it.

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7. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › The-definition-of[PDF] The definition of atheism | Semantic Scholar

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   This article tries to present a reflection on the nature of atheism. The central thesis is that atheism is often misunderstood. The most fruitful definition of atheism is a negative one: an atheist does not believe in the god that theism favors.

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   What does atheism mean in philosophy?

   • This generates the following definition: atheism is the psychological state of lacking the belief that God exists. In philosophy, however, and more specifically in the philosophy of religion, the term “atheism” is standardly used to refer to the proposition that God does not exist (or, more broadly, to the proposition that there are no gods).

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   What is atheism based on?

   • This steers a course between confining theism to only a specific form of it (e.g., Abrahamic monotheism), and needlessly coupling atheism itself to a particular metaphysical or ethical worldview. The resulting union of these two decisions gives us the following definition of atheism: an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods.

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   Do atheists have a particular concept of God?

   • Jeanine Diller (2016) points out that, just as most theists have a particular concept of God in mind when they assert that God exists, most atheists have a particular concept of God in mind when they assert that God does not exist. Indeed, many atheists are only vaguely aware of the variety of concepts of God that there are.

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   What is 'practical atheism'?

   • That said, the term ‘practical atheism’—‘a lifestyle in which no (discernible) conclusions are drawn from the (theoretical) recognition of the existence of God’ ( Rahner 1957: 983)—relating primarily to the latter sense has some currency within Christian literature.

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9. pragmatism.org › shook › 2015 Shook Philosophy of religionPhilosophy of religion and two types of atheology

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   Atheism is skeptical towards gods, and atheology advances philosophical positions defending the reasonableness of that rejection. The history of philosophy encompasses many unorthodox and irreligious movements of thought, and these varieties of unbelief deserve more exegesis and analysis than presently available.