Phenomenological Account of Religious Experience
Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism August 20, 2011 DOI: 10.20871/kpjipm.v1i1.4 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that philosophy has historically recognized only two kinds of experience—perceptual and intellectual—each associated with empiricism and rationalism respectively, and that all other experiences are forced into these categories. |
Abstract
History of philosophy is built upon rigid discrimination between various human experiences. Human experiences are divided mainly into two major experiences: Perceptual and intelectual. Perceptual experience is deined by empiricism as an aposteriori experience of empirical sensations. Meanwhile, rationalism claims that the only acceptable experience is apriori experience of intelectual object (natural laws, mathematical equations and logical operations). There is no other experience outside those two philosophical account of experiences. All other experiences must be subsumed either within perceptual or intelectual experience.