Is Lived Experience the New Revelation?
On Persuasion and Conversion
Leo Strauss, on whom I’ve written before (see here, here, and here), posits two competing sources of knowledge and authority: Reason and Revelation.
Reason is internal to us, while Revelation comes from without. Reason is universal, while Revelation is particular to a community. Reason is timeless (1+1=2 is true for all time); Revelation takes place in h…
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