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A TYPICAL CASE OF AMBIVALENCE BETWEEN FIDEISM AND EVIDENTIALISM
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In this paper, I seek to elaborate and critically examine
Alvin Plantinga's narrative on the basicality of religious beliefs. Plantinga is
a contemporary American Philosopher who is famous for his sharp
philosophical analysis and logical skills he employs to defend the epistemic
warrant of theistic beliefs. Though his epistemology is based on Calvinist
reformed theology (a grand narrative in itself), he paradoxically insists that
his position is rationally justified on the basis of Chisholm's epistemic
insight. He claims to be Postmodernist in the sense that he rejects the idea
that there must be some shared criteria of rationality which could lay claim
to hold a lock on truth. For him there is no neutral ground and in the same
way there is no objective framework for adjudication of conflicting truth -
claims. Each group is entitled to live according its own standards. There is
no need to conform to the views of those who follow Bertrand Russell and
Madelyn Murray O'Hare. But despite this, Plantinga strongly holds that
religious beliefs are on a par with beliefs based on cognitive faculties such
as perception, memory and reasoning. This ambivalence persisting in
Plantinga's position forms the core of our discourse in this' article
Dr. M. Iqbal Afaqi . (2009) PLANTINGA'S BASICALISM, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 01.
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