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Confidence
Belief overview
Incerteza ou incognoscibilidade do divino
Certas realidades últimas são vistas como incertas ou possivelmente incognoscíveis.
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Supportive
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Contrary
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Neutral
O que é: Muitas correntes agnósticas afirmam que a realidade divina é incerta, obscura ou até inacessível ao conhecimento humano pleno.
Como a posição entende: A limitação pode ser vista como provisória, por falta de provas, ou estrutural, porque a mente humana talvez não alcance o absoluto de modo verificável.
Base e contexto: O tema aparece em debates sobre metafísica, linguagem religiosa e limites da razão.
Debates e variações: Alguns autores falam em desconhecimento atual; outros em incognoscibilidade de princípio.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Herbert Spencer and the Unknowable
A nineteenth-century formulation on the unknowable.
Reference: Herbert Spencer, especially in First Principles.
Content: Spencer maintains that ultimate reality remains beyond the full reach of human knowledge.
Use in debate: It is important for the strand that treats the absolute as unknowable.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
A philosophical landmark on the limits of theoretical reason.
Reference: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason.
Content: Kant delimits the legitimate use of theoretical reason and questions traditional metaphysical proofs about transcendent objects.
Use in debate: It is widely used to support the limits of metaphysical knowledge and of discourse about God.
J. L. Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason
An important work on divine hiddenness.
Reference: J. L. Schellenberg, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason.
Content: The author argues that the absence of an unequivocal manifestation of God weighs against strong theistic certainties.
Use in debate: It is a relevant source for uncertainty about the divine and for suspension of judgment.
Contrary
Acts 17:27
A passage about the human search for God.
Reference: Acts 17:27.
Content: Paul says that human beings can seek God and perhaps find him, though groping for him.
Use in debate: The passage is used to support the idea that the divine is not totally inaccessible.