Connectedness: A Transformative Feeling and Spiritual Virtue
Agatheos : December 20, 2024 T. Ryan Byerly
This paper develops an account of one trait involved in living the spiritual life well and argues that this trait can be recognized by both the religious and non-religious as a virtue. The virtue, which I call “spiritual excellence,” involves making skilled use of a worldview for which one has ambiguous evidence or better in order to cultivate transformative experiences of connectedness. I...