Descartes Felsefesinde Cogito ve Tanrı'nın Konumunun Bilgi ve İnanç Konusuna Etkisi

The Influence of Cogito and Position of God to Subjects of Knowledge and Belief in Descartes' Philosophy

John Locke did not apply the epistemological criteria which were determined in his Essay to the Reasonableness in which he argued reasonableness of Christian belief. Instead, he supported his arguments about authenticity of Christian revelation and being the true words of God, by miracles. His strategy of justifying the reliability of the miracles by basing it to the reliability of witness considered philosophically inconsistent and target of criticism from different aspects. As a consequence; it can be seen that, Locke opinions about the possibility of demonstration of the existence of God and knowledge about ethical propositions as certain as mathematical propositions, deviated to a kind of fideistic approach in arguing the reasonableness of Christian belief and revelation

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Öz: Dinî inancın aklî olabilmesi için Essay'de belirttiği çeşitli epis

temolojik kriterleri, Hıristiyan inancının aklîliğini savunduğu Rea

sonablenss adlı eserinde uygulamayan John Locke, Hıristiyan vahyi

nin otantik olduğu ve hakikaten Tanrı sözü olduğu iddiasını des

teklemek için mucize kanıtını destek olarak öne sürmüştür. Muci

zenin güvenirliğini ona şahit olanların güvenilirliğine dayandıran

Locke'un bu argümanı felsefî açıdan tutarlı olmamakla birlikte pek

çok noktadan da eleştiriye açıktır. Sonuç olarak; Tanrı'nın varlığı

ve ahlakî önermelere dair bilginin matematiksel kesinlik derece

sinde ispatlanabileceğini öne süren Locke'un, Hıristiyan vahyi ve

inancının aklî olduğunu ispatlama konusunda fideizm benzeri bir

anlayışa meylettiği görülmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: John Locke, Hristiyanlık, aklîlik, mucize, inanç, tasdik.