Perception of God: Beauty and the soul, according to Plotinus
19/05/2007 Filed in: Platonism
& Neoplatonism
People of
faith claim that they can feel God’s presence,
metaphorically in their lives, and even physically in
their hearts. But if God is transcendent, non-physical
or supra-physical as it were, how can such a perception
be possible at all? Let alone be proven? Also, how can
one receive what is sometimes described as a calling
from a God that is supposed to be so unfathomable?
These questions have acquired some momentum with
writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.
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