Virtue Rationality and Religious Beliefs: with an Emphasis on Theory of Sosa

Abstract

Virtue epistemology is a new recent approach to epistemology that gives to epistemic or intellectual virtues an important role. Having many similaritywith Externalist Reformed Epistemology, Virtue based view can be used as a new model in religious epistemology. We can define religious virtue and religious perspective that produce true apt beliefs. These presuppositions lead to a new concept of rationality that can defend the rationality of religious beliefs.Therefore we can hold the possibility of religious knowledge against skepticism and its rationality against atheism.

Keywords

• virtue epistemology
• intellectual virtue
• epistemic perspective
• virtue rationality
• comprehensive coherence
• safety