Agnosticism is philosophical doctrine that declares the absolute inaccessible to the human spirit or who considers any metaphysics and any religious ideology vain, since some of these precepts or ideologies cannot be proven empirically.
Agnosticism is a term with origin in Greek, being the combination of the prefix indicative of the negation "a" and the term gnostikós, which is related to knowledge.
According to this doctrine, things, reality and, above all, the absolute are unknowable. Moderate positivism (A. Comte and, in particular, H. Spencer) is its most characteristic representative. The Kantian theory of the unknowability of the "thing in itself" and the impossibility of demonstrating the existence of God is also considered agnosticism.
an individual agnostic it ignores or appears to ignore everything that is not under the control of the senses. He does not believe but also does not deny the existence of a God or deity, claiming that human knowledge is not capable of obtaining rational data to prove the existence of supernatural entities. Agnosticism declares the whole notion of the absolute (eg, the origin of life) impossible and inaccessible to human understanding, reducing science to the knowledge of the phenomenal and relative.
Theistic and Atheistic Agnosticism
One agnostic Theist is characterized by the joining of two doctrines: agnosticism and theism. This individual believes that there is a God (or gods), despite claiming that he has no knowledge that can prove his existence. It believes because it is based on a concept announced by a particular religion.
As well as the agnostic theist, the atheistic agnostic claims to have neither knowledge nor be able to prove the existence of gods through reason. However, the atheist does not believe that God or other supernatural entities exist.
See the meaning of religious diversity.
