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Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna and Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion (2018; henceforth, IPIR) is an excellent book. It contributes to cross-cultural philosophy of religion by showing not only that a profound philosophical dialogue between prima facie different philosophical traditions is possible and needed, but also by making a clear case that Western philosophy in fact can benefit enormously from Ra ̄makr ̇s ̇n ̇a's philosophy of religion. In what follows, I focus on Ra ̄makr ̇s ̇n ̇a's theory of the infinitude of God and bring it into further dialogue with my own position on both the paraconsistent nature of God and the possibility of veridical mystical experiences. In several papers, I have argued that ultimate reality is paraconsistent because this best explains how God could be the ultimate ground of empirical reality. I also argued that the conception of a paraconsistent God entails the truth of panentheism. In this response, I argue that a paraconsistent conception of God also explains the possibility that mystics subscribing to different worldviews can have veridical mystical experiences of ultimate reality that prima facie seem to contradict each o
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- Author
- Benedikt Paul Göcke
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)