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SUMMARY:The Phenomenology of Religious Experience
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DESCRIPTION:<p>This presentation adopts a realist-phenomenological framework to describe religious experience. We first introduce a core tenet of realist phenomenology: the principle of intelligibility. On this view\, every entity is in principle knowable\, and knowledge is a primitive relation between an entity and a non-propositional intuitive state\; being in such a state is for its subject to know entity x. We then consider religious experience and its impact on self-knowledge. We describe religious&mdash\;and\, in particular\, mystical&mdash\;experiences as putative states of knowledge\, distinguished by their revelatory mode: in them\, the divine discloses itself and thereby transforms the subject. Drawing on Scheler&rsquo\;s notion of ordo amoris&mdash\;the affective structure of deep-seated preferences and concerns that shapes value-perception&mdash\;we argue that religious experience reorders one&rsquo\;s hierarchy of love\, decentring egoic concerns and reorienting the self toward selfless participation in being. This self-transformation involves affective reversal\, the relativisation of worldly values\, and a new attunement to the sacred. Cross-cultural cases reveal a shared structure: mystical knowing requires self-abandonment\, or &ldquo\;forgetting&rdquo\; of the ego\, yielding a transformed\, non-possessive mode of existence suffused with universal love.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jason K. Day:
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