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The Distinction Between Philosophy and Religion

Published on September 6th, 2009.

Religion has existed for as long as there have been human beings on earth. Philosophy was a later development, and philosophy of religion appeared later still. There would be no philosophy of religion if philosophy were not distinct from religion and if philosophy did not assume the role of critic of all major human practices, including the practice of religion. These conditions never existed in the East, where philosophies and religions are not separated as they are in the Western world, and even in the West, philosophers did not aggressively assume the role of religious critic until the last two or three hundred years.

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Linda Zagzebski, Philosophy of Religion: An Historical Introduction (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 1.

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