Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Is a mystical experience the highest knowledge of God? Both Aquinas and Al-Ghazali turned away from their work in philosophy and theology after having a mystical experience. This teaches a radical …
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Continuing in Chapter 3 we look at Augustine. Dr Anderson traces Augustine’s change from a Manichean (a form of dualism) to theist. He gives an argument about the nature of evil as the privation of …
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Cicero gives a look at the different schools of thought in the classical world. The academic skeptics, the stoics, and the epicureans. Here Dr Anderson looks at the assumptions behind each. What did …
