A RACIONALIDADE DE CRER EM DEUS PARA ALVIN PLANTINGA

Abstract

The present work has as main objective to present the analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga and your conception of the rationality of believing in God. This theme has been of great relevance throughout the History of Philosophy, awakening several points of divergence and possibilities for answers. In this sense, Plantinga presents a response to the conception that it is irrational to believe in God and that there is no justification for having such a belief. Therefore, it presents a proposal that theistic beliefs are rationally endorsed and, if true, they are knowledge. Thus, the discussion about the rationality for believing in God is presented using the Aquino and Calvin model. Therefore, Plantinga considers that the authors of modernity, such as Descartes and Locke, brought contributions to the discussion regarding theistic beliefs, but that classical foundationalism is unable to provide a satisfactory answer to this philosophical debate, requiring the concept of warrant for the adequate understanding of the guarantee of believing in God.