Zakład Języków i Kultur Indii i Azji Południowej IO UJ

Koło Naukowe Indologów UJ

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The Will to Realize: Swami Vivekananda's Three-Rung Ladder of Religious Faith,

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Swami Medhananda, PhD (UC Berkeley)

In this talk, our guest will discuss the innovative views on religious faith of the Indian Vedāntic philosopher Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) and demonstrate their relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy of religion and epistemology. Vivekananda, author argue, made a unique intervention in late nineteenth-century debates about faith and reason by steering a middle course between the stringent evidentialism of W.K. Clifford and T.H. Huxley and the anti-evidentialist fideism of William James. Vivekananda justifies religious faith on the basis of what I call an “expanded evidentialism,” arguing that supersensuous perception and mystical testimony are valid sources of evidence that support the rationality of religious belief. His various remarks about faith hint at a dynamic conception of religious faith, according to which one’s faith in God evolves in the following three stages: (1) faith as sub-doxastic intellectual assent, (2) faith as belief, and (3) faith as self-authenticating realization.

Dr Swami Medhananda (UC Berkeley) jest mnichem z Zakonu Ramakriszny i Senior Research Fellow w zakresie filozofii w Instytucie Edukacji Moralnej i Duchowej Ramakriszny (Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education, RIMSE) w Mysore, w Indiach. Obecnie interesują go następujące obszary badawcze: tradycje filozoficzne wedanty, międzykulturowa filozofia religii, międzykulturowe badania świadomości, indyjska hermeneutyka pism świętych oraz filozofia Sri Ramakriszny, Swamiego Wiwekanandy i Sri Aurobindo.