Religions have always relied on the idea of a conversion experience. But conversion experiences are essential to many of the characterizations of philosophy as a way of life. Plato’s allegory of the cave where one transitions from the corrupt sensible world to the incorruptible world of the spirit; the Stoic intuition of the presence ofContinue reading “On Conversion Experiences”
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On Miracles
There are no uncaused events. If miracles are uncaused events, then there are no miracles. But the unexpected, the never-before-seen, the unlikely, the novel surely do exist. We can be astonished by what we don’t know and live in territories where mystery abounds without endorsing metaphysical nonsense.
Philosophy: A Way of Life 