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    Assessment of the Experience of Beauty in Plato as the Numinous Experience
    with Mohammadreza Bayat
    Mirror of Wisdom 20 (2): 77-100. 2020.
    The issue of the article is defending the claim that the experience of Beauty can be considered the numinous experience. First, the article explains Otto’s view on numinous experiences. Then it explains Plato’s view on Beauty and love. Finally, comparing the two views, the article shows that the experience of Beauty or Platonic love can be considered the numinous experience. Because, firstly, the experience of Beauty or Platonic love is an awareness of a “wholly other” being, which possesses all…Read more
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    The Experience of Beauty or Love as a Religious Experience in Plato
    with Mohammadreza Bayat
    Religions and Mysticism 51 (2): 182-202. 2018.
    The issue of the article is whether the experience of Beauty or love in Plato can be considered as some kind of religious experience. First, the article describes different views on the religious experience. Then it deals with Plato's view on beauty and love and their relationship. finally, demonstrating the divinity of Beauty in Plato, the article shows that if religious experience is an encounter of the experiencer with the divine being, or in religious term God, that manifests itself in vario…Read more