Considering the historical development of religious philosophy, whose philosophies do you think most advanced?

Question

Western religious thought

Answer 1

Judeao-Christian philosophy is the basis of Western religious and much of non-religious thought.

Answer 2

Actually most western religion is based on the Abramic God-Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Christianity and Islam are more advanced historically than Judaism only because they've branched off of Judaism. They are all basically the same age as they all have the same root but Islam and Christianity took it further.

They are all very young though, when compared to Easterm ideologies which predate Abramic ideas by thousands of years. So there is a lot to consider before finding an answer to your question.

Answer 3

Though its rather a tricky question, but I am sure everybody would like to flag his or her own religious philosophy has been most advanced....I just checked some of the answers and as assumed they were representing their own belief.... I would say Hindu Religious Philosophy is most advanced.

Answer 4

somewhat loaded question..."western religious thought"
Christianity and later Islam were offshoots of Judaic religious views, cultish influences and especially...Greek philosophical writings...

and the question itself is worded somewhat ambiguously
which philosophies have developed the most?
or which philosophers' views are the most advanced ?

if the first....probably Pauline philosophy...his writings formed the basis for what became orthodox Christianity....
or
The Athenian philosophers
Socrates,Plato, Aristotle,Plotinus et al
it is their philosophical writings that have shaped western thought...including religious thought..

if the latter...perhaps Bultmann, or Campbell

Answer 5

The Humanist tradition.

Answer 6

Philosophy is religion, religion is philosophy and the advancement of human thought is historical philosophy, philosophical history. As rationalism and empiricism are in dialectic, the activity of ideology is ended and action begins. 'Philosophy has interpreted the world in various ways, the point, however, is to change it.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will, relations of production which correspond to a definite stage of development of their material productive forces. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface-abs.htm


http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/a.htm#rationalism

Rationalism

Rationalism emphasises the role of Reason in arriving at true knowledge, as opposed to Empiricism, which emphasises the role of Experience and sense perception in knowledge. There are both idealist and materialist trends in both Rationalism and Empiricism.

Further Reading: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Kant and Fichte.

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/m.htm#empiricism

Empiricism

Doctrine that sense experience is the sole source of knowledge. Empiricism originated in England in the seventeenth century with Bacon, Hobbes and Locke, when it was a materialist trend, is as much as it directed attention to the observation of Nature as opposed to Holy scripture or introspection. Bacon, & Co. recognised the material world as the source of sensation, and that sense experience has objective content. The Rationalist critique of Empiricism, and particularly the idealist critique of Berkeley forced empiricism to the scepticism of Hume: experience was the only source of knowledge, but could not give us "certain knowledge". For example, we may know that the Sun has always risen in the East, and this may be good enough for practical purposes, but Hume explained that we cannot know for certain that the Sun will rise in the East tommorow.

Empiricism is characterised, on the one hand, by an uncritical attitude towards the categories through which Experience is grasped, and on the other by rejection of the significance of Reason in acquiring knowledge. This is why, historically, Empiricism could not answer the critique of Rationalism and fell into scepticism. Experience does not by itself give necessary and universal knowledge. Experience must be supplemented by the activity of Reason. The chief defect of Empiricism is that it views experience passively, whereas in order to retain a consistent materialist understanding of experience it is necessary to recognise that it is the practical activity of people changing the world which is the condition and source of knowledge. Further, knowledge only arises in and through definite social relations, through which people produce the forms of activity under which experience can be grasped; but for Empricism, experience is not a social activity, but simply a passive, sensual process.

Further Reading: Empiricism and Its Evolution by Gerge Novack, and Geoff Pilling's explanation, Hegel's critique of Empiricism, and in particular it's defect

Answer 7

Augustinian

Answer 8

The most advance is known as "YOGA VAASISHTAM"
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Answer 9

Spiritualism has advanced, not religion.

Answer 10

Dahli Lama [sp?]