Agnostisisme: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

Seorang ahli [[biologi]] [[Inggris]], [[Thomas Henry Huxley]] mencetuskan kata ''agnostic'' pada tahun 1869, dengan mengatakan bahwa "secara sederhana ini memiliki makna bahwa seseorang tidak sepatutnya mengatakan kalau dirinya tahu atau percaya pada sesuatu yang mana dirinya tidak memiliki dasar ilmiah untuk mengaku tahu atau percaya." Beberapa pemikir sebelumnya telah menulis karya-karya yang isinya mengangkat cara pandang agnostik, beberapa di antaranya adalah [[Sanjaya Belatthiputta]], seorang filsuf India dari abad ke 5 [[Sebelum Masehi|SM]], yang mengungkapkan agnostisisme akan kehidupan setelah mati.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.02.0.than.html |title=Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life |others=a part of the Digha Nikaya translated in 1997 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu |quote=If you ask me if there exists another world (after death),&nbsp;... I don't think so. I don't think in that way. I don't think otherwise. I don't think not. I don't think not not. |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6NFylf86U?url=http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.02.0.than.html |archivedate=February 9, 2014 |deadurl=no |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Bhaskar 1972">Bhaskar (1972).</ref><ref name="Ridgeon2003">{{cite book |author=Lloyd Ridgeon |title=Major World Religions: From Their Origins To The Present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AubFD0B-a7AC&pg=PA63 |date=March 13, 2003 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-203-42313-4 |pages=63–}}</ref> dan [[Protagoras]], seorang filsuf Yunani abad 5 [[SM]], yang mengungkapkan agnostisisme terhadap keberadaan "Tuhan-Tuhan."<ref name="Protagoras">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/protagor/ |title=The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy&nbsp;– Protagoras (c. 490&nbsp;– c. 420 BCE) |accessdate=July 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6N5BAlO9r?url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/protagor/ |archivedate=February 2, 2014 |quote=While the pious might wish to look to the gods to provide absolute moral guidance in the relativistic universe of the Sophistic Enlightenment, that certainty also was cast into doubt by philosophic and sophistic thinkers, who pointed out the absurdity and immorality of the conventional epic accounts of the gods. Protagoras' prose treatise about the gods began "Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be. Many things prevent knowledge including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life." |deadurl=no |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="patri">{{cite web|url=http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/s1990a22.htm |title=Progress of Atheism in India: A Historical Perspective |publisher=Atheist Centre 1940–1990 Golden Jubilee |date=February 1990 |accessdate=June 29, 2014 |author=Patri, Umesh and Prativa Devi |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6Qh9396tk?url=http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/s1990a22.htm |archivedate=June 29, 2014 |deadurl=yes |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Treharne2012">{{cite book |author=Trevor Treharne |title=How to Prove God Does Not Exist: The Complete Guide to Validating Atheism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtOzmf_5zLcC&pg=PA34 |year=2012 |publisher=Universal-Publishers |isbn=978-1-61233-118-8 |pages=34 ff.}}</ref><ref name="Schwab2012">{{cite book |author=Helmut Schwab |title=Essential Writings: A Journey Through Time: A Modern "De Rerum Natura" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aIKEESkEqoC&pg=PT77 |date=December 10, 2012 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-4759-6026-6 |pages=77 ff.}}</ref>