Reformed Epistemology, Religious Pluralism, and the Ethics of Solidarity

Abstrakt

One of the most influential currents of the contemporary philosophical thought that provides justification for exclusivist and in a sense elitist approaches to moral and religious "knowledge" which inevitably leads to conflictual potrayal of diverse ethical and religious traditions is so called Reformed epistemology. In this chapter the fatal flaws of this philosophical theory are being identified, with particular attention been paid to the tension between the claims of the Reformed epistemologists and the plausible claims of the defenders of the social constructivism (even in its "soft" or minimalist version favoured by this author).

Klíčová slova

• social constructivism
• antirealism
• elitism
• social ethics
• particularism
• social theory of knowledge