# Religion and Experience: A Philosophical Exploration

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Keith Ward DD FBA
- Year: 2015
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Philosophy, Religion
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/religion-and-experience-philosophical-exploration)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

It is a widely held philosophical belief that all knowledge begins with experience. But experience needs to be interpreted. This lecture argues that there are widespread human experiences of ‘transcendence’, and looks at the arts and at morality as providing examples of this. Such experiences need not involve God explicitly, but they postulate the existence of objective values that put in question a materialist view of reality.

## Lectures

1. [Experience and the Spiritual Dimension](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-religion-and-experience-philosophical-exploration/7e13f25c58aa) (YouTube)
2. [The Idealist View of Reality](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-religion-and-experience-philosophical-exploration/c00bdedff62b) (YouTube)
3. [Religion and Experience: A Philosophical Exploration - Personal Knowledge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-religion-and-experience-philosophical-exploration/0c3422fbd8d0) (YouTube)
4. [Forms of Religious Thought](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-religion-and-experience-philosophical-exploration/bee66a8542d2) (YouTube)