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John Locke ve Hıristiyan İnancının Aklîliği

John Locke and Reasonableness of Christian Belief

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  • Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy

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  • 2016

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John Locke did not apply the epistemological criteria which were determined in his Essay to the Reasonableness in which he argued reasonableness of Christian belief. Instead, he supported his arguments about authenticity of Christian revelation and being the true words of God, by miracles. His strategy of justifying the reliability of the miracles by basing it to the reliability of witness considered philosophically inconsistent and target of criticism from different aspects. As a consequence; it can be seen that, Locke opinions about the possibility of demonstration of the ex-istence of God and knowledge about ethical propositions as cer-tain as mathematical propositions, deviated to a kind of fideistic approach in arguing the reasonableness of Christian belief and rev-elation.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Dinî inancın aklî olabilmesi için Essay’de belirttiği çeşitli epis-temolojik kriterleri, Hıristiyan inancının aklîliğini savunduğu Rea-sonablenss adlı eserinde uygulamayan John Locke, Hıristiyan vahyi-nin otantik olduğu ve hakikaten Tanrı sözü olduğu iddiasını des-teklemek için mucize kanıtını destek olarak öne sürmüştür. Muci-zenin güvenirliğini ona şahit olanların güvenilirliğine dayandıran Locke’un bu argümanı felsefî açıdan tutarlı olmamakla birlikte pek çok noktadan da eleştiriye açıktır. Sonuç olarak; Tanrı’nın varlığı ve ahlakî önermelere dair bilginin matematiksel kesinlik derece-sinde ispatlanabileceğini öne süren Locke’un, Hıristiyan vahyi ve inancının aklî olduğunu ispatlama konusunda fideizm benzeri bir anlayışa meylettiği görülmektedir.
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