Can God Be Perceived?: A Phenomenological Critique of the Perceptual Model of Mystical Experience
In the perceptual model of mystical experience, the mystics are said to "perceive" God much like ordinary people perceive physical objects. The model has been used to defend the epistemic value of mysticism, and it has been championed most vigorously by William Alston in his work Perceivin...
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Sophia
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 1009-1025 |
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| 520 | |a In the perceptual model of mystical experience, the mystics are said to "perceive" God much like ordinary people perceive physical objects. The model has been used to defend the epistemic value of mysticism, and it has been championed most vigorously by William Alston in his work Perceiving God. This paper is a critique of the model from a phenomenological perspective. Utilizing insights from Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, I show that models like Alston's are based on an inadequate notion of perception, which fails to distinguish perception from other modes of intentionality; the result is that even if we assume the mystics have directly experienced God, it is not clear why we should say they have "perceived" God. Then, using a better and richer concept of perception, I show that the mystical experiences under discussion cannot be truly perceptual, because they lack some salient features of perception. The conclusion is that talks of "perceiving God" can only be analogical or metaphorical, but not literal. | ||
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