Chapter 1 of the Mackie book covers Hume's account of miracles, which we discussed in our Hume epistemology episode. One of our blog commenters here mentioned offhand that he thought that argument had been long discredited, which was a surprise to me. You can review the argument at Wikipedia here. Basically it boils down to "extraordinary claims require extraordinary Continue Reading …
Schleiermacher on Miracles and Revelation
We talked a bit on the episode towards the end about S's take on immortality. His take on miracles and on revelation is similar. In short, miracles are all around us, and all creativity is inspiration. It takes a pious person to recognize our ordinary environment as full of magic and wonder. From his second speech: The more religious you are, the more miracle would you Continue Reading …