This lecture was originally delivered in Portuguese through the Internet, as part of the Seminário de Filosofia program.

I would like to turn somewhat from the sequence dedicated to the cognitive parallax and the revolutionary mentality, in order to present, as a theme for today, some of the results of an inquiry that I have been making for a long time—an inquiry that I started many years ago, interrupted, and eventually resumed—concerning the experience of the phenomena called miraculous.

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This lecture was originally delivered in Portuguese through the Internet, as part of the Seminário de Filosofia program. You can watch the lecture with English subtitles by clicking here.

Good evening and welcome, everyone. Today we are going to carry on our series of studies that began with the theme of the cognitive parallax, but that, naturally, has been spreading to a number of correlative topics ever since. In order to conduct this study, for instance, it was necessary to characterize, as precisely as possible, the beginning of the historical process we had been trying to describe. Naturally, there are many studies that characterize the transition from the so-called Middle Ages to Modern Times, or the beginning of Modernity, from a variety of standpoints; for instance, from the standpoint of the history of philosophy or history of ideas, in which the doctrinal mutation that took place in those epochs is characterized.

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