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    The Moral Argument against the Existence of God?
    پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین 15 (2): 23-46. 2018.
    While the moral argument for the existence of God is a more familiar issue in philosophy of religion, recently, atheist philosophers have proposed a moral argument against the existence of God. This argument has been formulated in at least five ways: from the problem of evil, from the critique of alienation, from autonomy, from the critique of expediency, and from the immoral teachings of world religions. Some of these formulations can be regarded as a theoretical moral argument against the exis…Read more
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    Religious Belief and Intellectual Autonomy
    پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین 13 (2): 91-112. 2016.
    Intellectual autonomy indicates how human being can preserve her epistemic agency and intellectually manage and regulate herself. This epistemic value is commonly proposed against intellectual heteronomy according to which the believer is not capable of applying her epistemic agency because of internal or external impediments. Since the early modern era, some philosophers and intellectuals have supposed, implicitly or explicitly, that religious belief violates intellectual autonomy. However, the…Read more