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This chapter builds on recent work by Travis Dumsday (forthcoming) in exploring the axiological status of pantheism. After defining pantheism this chapter explores whether the anti-theist arguments from Part II can apply to pantheism rather than only monotheism. However, one difficulty in attempting to make this application is that it is unclear whether the standard categories of judgements in the axiology of theism literature such as personal/ impersonal and wide/narrow can properly be applied to pantheism. The chapter concludes by developing a novel argument anti-pantheism based on the idea that it is inconsistent with our perception of our reality.
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Dumsday cites a number of different versions of pantheism one could choose for axiological evaluation. For example, see Forrest (2016, 22), Hedley (1996, 62; 63), Leftow (2016, 65–66), Levine (1994), MacIntyre (1967, 34), Oppy (1997, 320), and Steinhart (2004). Dumsday further notes other accounts blur the line between pantheism and panentheism. For example, see Leslie (2016) and Nagasawa (2016).
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Of course, much of how one understands these works depends on the concept of ‘knowledge’ and ‘justification’ one has in view. Discussing this in detail is well beyond the scope of this project.
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Lougheed, K. (2020). The Axiology of Panentheism and Pantheism. In: The Axiological Status of Theism and Other Worldviews. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54820-9_8
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