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The Religious Notion in Epistemology

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  • Loredana TEREC-VLAD

    (Univerity Ștefan cel Mare, Suceava, Romania)

  • Ştefan Adrian ANDRIEŞ

    (University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland,)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight the issue of religiousness from the epistemological perspective. This involves, on the one hand, a scientific approach, and on the other hand the relation between science and religion as the basis of the spirituality of the entire existence, by approaching the religious exposure at social level. If at the scientific level religion occupies a secondary place in terms of the object of research, at the social and anthropological level it plays a vital role by approaching the divine-human relationship of all human expressions in relation to the creation and the Creator. Addressing this type of knowledge in such a sensitive field indicates the moment when the question surrounded by a whole plea that defines the relation between mystical and metaphysical knowledge is raised. We cannot not pretend to know religion as we know biology, but we also cannot say that we will know religion as we know mathematics, even if in they all lead to the same result. Since they are metaphysical or transcendental, religious sciences require a special approach regarding the object of research, because everything that is said or approved will permanently reflect uncertainty and ambiguity within not knowing, precisely by the very essence of the great mystery of the central point that gives vitality to the whole circle of religious knowledge. We shall systematically present the relation between the religious content and what can be perceived and known by using all our systems of understanding and exposure in order to provide a satisfactory answer both from the symbolic point of view as well as by indicating the type of knowledge applied for finding the epistemological relevance.

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  • Loredana TEREC-VLAD & Ştefan Adrian ANDRIEŞ, 2014. "The Religious Notion in Epistemology," Postmodern Openings, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 5(1), pages 41-52, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:5:y:2014:i:1:p:41-52
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    Keywords

    religious epistemology; knowledge; mystic; Creator; anthropology;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate

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