Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Supernatural

  • Peikoff on the Supernatural

    Top o' the Stack. Disciple on the left, master on the right.

  • Peikoff on the Supernatural

    Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Meridian 1993, p. 31: "Supernatural," etymologically, means that which is above or beyond nature.  "Nature," in turn denotes existence viewed from a certain perspective. Nature is existence regarded as a system of interconnected entities governed by law; it is the universe of entities acting and interacting in accordance…