- Agnosticismo ateo
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Fracción de ateos y agnósticos en diferentes países.
Agnosticismo ateo, también llamado ateísmo agnóstico, combina el ateísmo con el agnosticismo.[1] Los ateos agnósticos son ateos porque no creen en la existencia de alguna deidad, y son agnósticos porque no afirman saber que una deidad no exista. El agnóstico ateo contrasta con el agnóstico teísta, que son los que creen en uno o más dioses pero sin afirmar tener conocimiento de que existan.
Los individuos que se identifican como ateos agnósticos o agnósticos ateos pueden justificar su posición haciendo referencia a la epistemología, a la teoría de la justificación o a la navaja de Occam.
Historia
Una de las primeras definiciones de agnosticismo ateo es la de Robert Flint en su Croal Lecture of 1887-1888 (publicado en 1903 bajo el título Agnosticism)
"The atheist may however be, and not unfrequently is, an agnostic. There is an agnostic atheism or atheistic agnosticism, and the combination of atheism with agnosticism which may be so named is not an uncommon one."[2]
"If a man has failed to find any good reason for believing that there is a God, it is perfectly natural and rational that he should not believe that there is a God; and if so, he is an atheist... if he goes farther, and, after an investigation into the nature and reach of human knowledge, ending in the conclusion that the existence of God is incapable of proof, cease to believe in it on the ground that he cannot know it to be true, he is an agnostic and also an atheist – an agnostic-atheist – an atheist because an agnostic... while, then, it is erroneous to identify agnosticism and atheism, it is equally erroneous so to separate them as if the one were exclusive of the other..."[2]
Referencias
- ↑ Cline, Austin. «Atheism vs. Agnosticism». About.com. Consultado el 27-04-2010.
- ↑ a b Flint, Robert (1903). Agnosticism: the Croall Lecture, 1887–1888. William Blackwood and Sons. pp. 49–51.
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